Justice Amy Coney Barrett Is Sworn In Under Darkness

Plus: are Asian Americans the last undecided voters? And a family waits for help in eastern Kentucky. View in browser | Update your preferences U.S. Journal Are Asian Americans the Last Undecided Voters? The political interests of such a diverse population can be hard to target, but several groups think they’ve found a way. By Hua Hsu Daily Comment Justice Amy Coney Barrett Is Sworn In Under Darkness at the White House Republican senators, led by Mitch McConnell, treated the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the starting bell in a bitterly exuberant race—which ended with Barrett on the Court. By Amy Davidson Sorkin U.S. Journal Waiting for the Help That Was Promised in Eastern Kentucky The stimulus checks are gone, and unemployment claims remain unprocessed. The Jaynes family is holding on to half a tank of gas and a dollar-fifty in change. By Oliver Whang Our Columnists We May Need the Twenty-fifth Amendment If Trump Loses The questioning of the President’s mental fitness has persisted throughout his Presidency. He has flipped the conversation onto his opponent. By Jeannie Suk Gersen U.S. Journal How Pro-Trump Disinformation Is Swaying Cuban-American Voters A group that Democrats once thought might help Joe Biden win Florida has shifted dramatically toward the President. By Stephania Taladrid 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. Culture and More Our Columnists The “Borat” Sequel Is a Parable of Russian Interference in American Politics Sacha Baron Cohen’s creation is the perfect totalitarian subject: ever ready to believe anything and nothing. By Masha Gessen Dept. of Laughs The Comedy Writers Who Try to Make Cuomo Cool With the help of Paul Rudd, a pair of “Tonight Show” staffers were tasked by the Governor’s office with making a P.S.A. to get millennials to mask up. By Michael Schulman The Front Row An Investigation of the N.Y.P.D.’s Crackdown on Dissent In an extraordinary work of journalism, the filmmakers of “Red Squad” highlighted the absurdism of authoritarian menace during the Vietnam War protests. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Spells to Cast on Your Least Favorite Neighbor You’re not out to ruin her life. You’re not that kind of witch (for now). By Deborah Lee Daily Cartoon Tuesday, October 27th By Kim Warp 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.