“He’s No Mr. Nice Guy”

Impeachment comes for Trump. Plus: Facebook and “free speech,” and a review of “Terminator: Dark Fate.” View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Trump’s Washington “He’s No Mr. Nice Guy”: Impeachment Comes for Trump The President says that he wants to argue the facts, but the facts are bad for him—and are getting worse. By Susan B. Glasser Daily Comment In His Dealings with Ukraine, Did Donald Trump Commit a Crime? The leading candidate for a relevant criminal statute, the Hobbs Act, is a familiar one in the federal courts. By Jeffrey Toobin Daily Comment Facebook and the “Free Speech” Excuse Facebook has never been a neutral platform but a company that monitors its users, manipulates their behavior, and sells their attention to the highest bidder. By Andrew Marantz Daily Comment Netanyahu Can’t Form a Government—Can Benny Gantz? The leader of the Blue and White Party has until November 20th to succeed where Netanyahu failed, but he seems set to fall short. By Bernard Avishai PAID POST "Reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —NYT Exhilarating, intimate, and fiercely intelligent, Life Undercover chronicles the extraordinary decade Amaryllis Fox spent working in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, while simultaneously navigating allegiance to country, family, and self. Culture and More The Current Cinema End Times in “Terminator: Dark Fate” and “Marriage Story” The Arnold Schwarzenegger franchise finds a novel groove; and Noah Baumbach toys with his audience as one couple dissolves. By Anthony Lane On Television “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually The show imagines the young Emily Dickinson in antebellum Massachusetts, like a figure in some emo Brontë fever dream. By Troy Patterson Under Review Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn In her latest book, the essayist is skeptical of #MeToo and nostalgic for the era before the Internet. By Emily Witt The Front Row The Stunning Achievement of “Harriet” The film’s wide-ranging and far-reaching vision endows history with personal passions, deeply rooted in memory and in collective identity and experience. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Running Is My Therapy and My Nutritionist Is Kale My Google Maps is the direction that moss grows on trees. My Waze is the orientation of the stars. My Apple Maps is tasting the wind. By Rebecca Turkewitz Daily Cartoon Friday, November 1st By Ali Solomon 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 ensure delivery to your inbox (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.