Rudy Giuliani, a One-Man Wrecking Crew

Plus: the U.S. asylum system is keeping migrants at risk in Mexico, and the lyricist who gave the Grateful Dead its sound. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Rudy Giuliani Is a One-Man Wrecking Crew By luring Donald Trump into the Ukraine folly, the President’s personal lawyer has ended up bloodying him more seriously than Robert Mueller or James Comey ever did. By John Cassidy Dispatch The U.S. Asylum System Is Keeping Migrants at Risk Under a Trump Administration policy, asylum seekers are forced to wait in dangerous border towns for court proceedings that can drag on for months. By Jonathan Blitzer Our Columnists Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Haunts Saudi Arabia The killing of the journalist, a year ago on Wednesday, has intensified doubts about the kingdom, at a moment when it needs allies. By Robin Wright Annals of Technology The Wild West of Online Political Operatives As campaigns become increasingly digital, the tools they use to harvest data face threats from hackers whose actions could be costly. By Sue Halpern Our Columnists The Changing Definition of Investigating Donald Trump The President’s rhetoric takes advantage of gaps in the language, adding flexibility to terms that previously had an understood meaning. By Masha Gessen PAID POST The origin story of our multicultural world Charles King’s New York Times bestseller has been praised as “elegant and kaleidoscopic” (New York Times) and “captivating” (NPR). Discover how Franz Boas and his extraordinary students changed the way we look at race, sex, and gender. Culture and More Postscript Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice The lyricist, who died recently, gave the band’s psychedelic Dixieland sound some quicksilver conceptual coherence and old-timey cred. By Nick Paumgarten Annals of Show Business How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics The mentalist’s techniques give people too sophisticated to believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to. By Adam Green Books Fanny Howe Makes Sense of Beginnings and Endings After sixty years of writing, the poet’s latest collection has fresh urgency—the necessity of reimagining time even as time runs out. By Dan Chiasson Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Questions for People Who Shout “Wooooo!” During a Workout Do you know that sex exists? By Kimberly Harrington Daily Cartoon Wednesday, October 2nd By David Sipress Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery to your in-box (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.