In the Streets with Antifa

Plus: more on last week’s debate, a wild World Series, and the cartoonist Liana Finck on how to draw feelings. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Portland In the Streets with Antifa Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified. By Luke Mogelson Comment Trump’s Bitter, Vainglorious Fantasy of America on the Debate Stage Biden’s challenge was that the President lies in a manner that is so unanchored to reality that it becomes disorienting for anyone watching. By Amy Davidson Sorkin The Sporting Scene Will Steve Cohen, a Symbol of Wall Street Malfeasance, Own the Mets? The hedge-fund billionaire’s ownership bid stands a good chance of receiving the league’s blessing, but a clause in the team’s stadium lease may be the deal’s undoing. By Sheelah Kolhatkar The Sporting Scene In a Wild World Series, Clayton Kershaw Gets to Write Another Chapter The Dodgers pitcher’s performance could determine who wins the championship. It will also test a rigid narrative that has unfairly defined his career. By Louisa Thomas PAID POST Call for 2021 – 2022 Biography Fellows The Leon Levy Center for Biography, at the Graduate Center, CUNY, invites applications for four 2021 – 2022 Biography Fellowships and one Leon Levy/Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in science biography. Fellows receive $72,000, research assistance and writing space. Tables for Two Pandemic Essentials of All Kinds, at Hunky Dory The Crown Heights bar and restaurant, which offers bottled cocktails to go and seasonal dishes like a duck-and-apple sandwich, hosts everything from clambakes to movie nights to political postcard drives. By Hannah Goldfield Culture and More Culture Desk All the Wrong Reasons to Remake “Rebecca” Daphne du Maurier’s story could have provided ground on which to explore issues of control, abuse, queer romance, and the terror of becoming a wife. But Netflix’s superficial, slapdash new adaptation isn’t interested. By Rachel Syme Video Dept. How to Draw Feelings In an interview and a video, Liana Finck talks about cartooning as catharsis and her processes for drawing inner lives. By Emma Allen and Liana Finck Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts America!: Constitutional Crisis Tarot Cards Queen of Wands: Ivanka Trump’s official title and also the name of a reality series in which she bedazzles incriminating memos. By Ali Fitzgerald Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Crossword: No. 26 A creepy, kooky puzzle in honor of Charles Addams: “Addams Family” prop we found in a sort of salad (6). By Monika Zook 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.