How a C.I.A. Coverup Targeted a Whistle-blower

A new Ronan Farrow investigation. Plus: the loneliness of the pro-choice Republican woman, and Jamaican banana fritters. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of National Security How a C.I.A. Coverup Targeted a Whistle-blower When a Justice Department lawyer exposed the agency’s secret role in drug cases, leadership in the intelligence community retaliated. By Ronan Farrow U.S. Journal The Loneliness of the Pro-Choice Republican Woman Support for abortion rights was once seen as consistent with conservatism. But mobilizing the religious wing of the G.O.P. left some of the Party’s most loyal members out in the cold. By Anna Louie Sussman Q. & A. Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History” The activist and linguist has serious concerns about the future of American democracy. By Isaac Chotiner Letter from Trump’s Washington Denialism and Deflection in the Final Days of the Trump Campaign The President is ending his reëlection bid with scandals that call into question the legitimacy of next week’s vote. By Susan B. Glasser Culture and More The Front Row A Year Without Movie Buzz With American movie theatres teetering on the edge of extinction, a strange and tragicomic side effect is afflicting the art of film. By Richard Brody Pop Music Grouptherapy Embodies a New Model of Cultural Versatility Formed as a reaction to the commercialization of creative energy, the collective project is refreshingly effortful. By Carrie Battan Kitchen Notes A Lifetime of Pancakes, and Jamaican Banana Fritters Hotcakes have been a boon to me this past year, as I’ve shifted my home cooking to maximize every haul from the grocery store. By Bryan Washington Postscript Remembering Daniel Menaker, a Lighthearted Champion of His Writers The editor spent a quarter century at The New Yorker, where younger staffers recognized a kindred soul. By Charles McGrath Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Poems Edgar Allan Poe Wrote While Lost in a Corn Maze “Melancholy is the man / Who enters corn without a plan.” By Maeve Dunigan Daily Cartoon Friday, October 30th By Johnny DiNapoli 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.