Alan Dershowitz for the Defense: L’État, C’est Trump

Plus: Trump’s racist immigration rule, evidence that could save Omar Ameen’s life, and Oscar-nominated screenplays. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Trump’s Washington Alan Dershowitz for the Defense: L’État, C’est Trump At the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday, Trump’s lawyer said that the President can do just about anything he wants. By Susan B. Glasser Our Columnists What Would a Fair Impeachment Trial Look Like? The public’s basic notions of procedural fairness, truth-seeking, and legitimacy are still stickily based on our expectations of trials in court—such as that witnesses will testify about the facts. By Jeannie Suk Gersen Our Columnists Trump’s Immigration Rule Is Cruel and Racist But it’s nothing new. Like much that is Trumpian, the new rules build logically on the last few decades of the American political conversation on immigration, race, and class. By Masha Gessen Q. & A. Connie Schultz on the Politics of the Primaries In the run-up to the first caucuses, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist gives her take on the Democratic primaries of the recent past and journalism in the Trump era. By Isaac Chotiner paid post Stephen Wright’s visionary new comedy about contemporary America “Wildly imaginative, funny, dark, endlessly inventive, Stephen Wright is one of our most original and essential American novelists,” raves Francine Prose. “Brilliant,” says Jonathan Lethem. Processed Cheese is a major work from one of our modern masters. News Desk The Evidence that Could Save Omar Ameen’s Life For the past eight months, the government has failed to disclose crucial information in an Iraqi refugee’s extradition proceedings. By Ben Taub American Chronicles The Fight to Preserve African-American History Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them. By Casey Cep Culture and More Culture Desk Oscars Spotlight: The Screenplays Hollywood is notorious for its disregard of the art of screenwriting, so it’s some consolation that writing gets twice as many Oscars categories as directing does. By Michael Schulman Page-Turner Holding Virginia Woolf in Your Hands The New York Public Library has acquired over a hundred letters, manuscripts, postcards, and more—enough to encourage a literary pilgrimage. By Roxana Robinson Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Ottolenghi’s Easiest Recipes Ever Recipes that even a simpleton like you could make, probably. By Krithika Varagur Daily Cartoon Thursday, January 30th By Ivan Ehlers 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 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.