An Interview with Iraq’s President

Plus: what another decade of climate crisis will bring, and how anti-Semitism rises on the left and right. View in browser | Update your preferences Q. & A. Where Will U.S.-Iran Tensions Play Out? An Interview with Iraq’s President “The last war is yet to be finished, and we’re talking about starting a new war? It’s just madness,” Barham Salih, the Iraqi President, says. By Robin Wright Comment What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring? 2019 has been called the year we woke up to climate change. Australia’s wildfires are yet more evidence that it’s time we started acting like it. By Elizabeth Kolbert Q. & A. How Anti-Semitism Rises on the Left and Right David Nirenberg discusses why prejudice against Jews arises in so many eras and contexts. By Isaac Chotiner Photo Booth Prom Pictures of Ukrainian Teens on the Verge Michal Chelbin’s photos elicit the timelessness of portraiture but also the timeliness of the political moment in Ukraine. By Janet Elise Johnson Puzzles and Games Dept. The Cryptic Crossword: No. 43 Saucy food ruined Rob’s shirt (5,4). By Patrick Berry N.Y.C. Living Through the Years Modern Life No Place Like Home From 1995: “After sixteen years, it came down to a battle of wills: woman versus apartment.” By Nancy Franklin Personal History Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York From 2018: “Love didn’t so much edge those bodies out as ask for a different place to house itself—a new home with less of everything that was not love.” By Hilton Als From the Archive A Reporter at Large Eichmann in Jerusalem—I From 1963: The trial of Adolf Eichmann and the banality of evil. By Hannah Arendt Annals of Crime The Chameleon From 2008: The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin. By David Grann Annals of Philanthropy The Gift From 2004: Zell Kravinsky gave away millions. But somehow it wasnʼt enough. By Ian Parker Humor from The New Yorker Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. Daily Shouts Billboards That Will Convince You to Move A sinister circus clown, hipster Jesus, and other ads disrupting your view. By Tracey K. Berglund 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.