How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic

Plus: why the Chicks dropped their “Dixie”; the Lincoln Project; and Goldbelly. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections. By Jane Mayer Pop Music Why the Chicks Dropped Their “Dixie” The all-female country band, which survived an instance of proto-cancel culture for its politics in the past, again wants to meet the current moment. By Amanda Petrusich On the Hustings Is Working with the Lincoln Project Sleeping with the Enemy? Heath Eiden followed the “enemy-of-my-enemy” principle when he shot the new anti-Trump “Betrayed” ad. By Nick Paumgarten PAID POST Will one band change the world, or will the world change them? From David Mitchell, the New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas comes Utopia Avenue, a kaleidoscopic novel about music, madness, idealism—and the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Culture and More The Front Row The Power of Elaine Stritch in “Original Cast Album: Company” D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, thrillingly illuminates three art forms. By Richard Brody Tables for Two Goldbelly Ships Iconic Restaurant Food to Your Home The online startup sends meal kits and menu items from beloved restaurants nationwide, from Raoul’s decadent burger au poivre to Veselka’s borscht and pierogi. By Hannah Goldfield Crossword Today’s Crossword First Schwarzenegger film to reuse the catchphrase “I’ll be back”: eight letters. By Patrick Berry Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts A Turtle Leaves Leaving is scary. By Jared Nangle Daily Cartoon Monday, July 13th By Liz Montague This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.