This Week’s Issue: The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire

Plus: the political power of police unions, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the pandemic response, and the science of skin. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals. By Ed Caesar American Chronicles How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar? By Jill Lepore Annals of Infrastructure Urgent Care from the Army Corps of Engineers While Trump flails in the pandemic, the military’s builders are getting it done. By Paige Williams Dept. of Law Enforcement How Police Unions Fight Reform Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands. By William Finnegan Comment Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment The amendment, ratified a century ago, wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation. By Margaret Talbot Books Rethinking the Science of Skin What is all the scrubbing, soaping, moisturizing, and deodorizing really doing for the body’s largest organ? By Brooke Jarvis A Critic at Large Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures. By Louis Menand Pop Music The Rallying Cry in Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album On “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon,” the charismatic New York rapper, who was killed in February, sounds like a young man exploring all his possibilities. By Carrie Battan Newsletters Sign Up for the New Yorker Recommends Newsletter Discover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Small Talk in 1348 “I have attempted the new recipes for gruel that the town crier has shouted.” By Teddy Wayne Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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.