What Happens if Trump Fights the Election Results?

Plus: Joe Biden, America’s un-Trump; the many lives of a good Communist; and Alice Oswald’s Homeric poetry. View in browser | Update your preferences Campaign Chronicles What Happens if Donald Trump Fights the Election Results? Stealing a Presidential election in America is difficult, but it has been done before. By Eric Lach Letter from Trump’s Washington Joe Biden, America’s Un-Trump For the Democratic nominee, the 2020 election has always been all about the President. By Susan B. Glasser Dispatch What Navalny’s Poisoning Says About Putin’s Russia Alexey Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition politician, is fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital. By Joshua Yaffa Postscript The Many Lives and Quiet Death of a Good Communist Fernando Barral spent his life trying to be a model Communist, only to be stymied by Party commissars. By Jon Lee Anderson Our Columnists Steve Bannon’s Predictable “We Build the Wall” Scam It has been asked, repeatedly, whether the grifts of Trump and the people around him would ever catch up with them. On Thursday, they caught up with Bannon. By Eric Lach Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Food Newsletter Get essays on food, restaurant reviews, and notes for the kitchen, all delivered to your in-box. Culture and More Books Alice Oswald’s Homeric Mood Her poetry conjures the worlds of the Iliad and the Odyssey with startling, sometimes vexing, beauty. By Judith Thurman The Front Row “Boys State,” a Hermetic View of Texas Teen Politicos The void left by the filmmakers’ invisibility in their documentary eclipses the details and events they present. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Math Problems for Fall, 2020 If the school’s forty-five teachers take a six-per-cent pay cut while administrators take a zero-per-cent pay cut, will your generation finally be the one to dismantle a system in which the powerful exploit the less powerful with impunity? By Rebecca Turkewitz Daily Cartoon Friday, August 21st By Yasin Osman 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.