This Week’s Issue: Andrew Cuomo, the King of New York

Plus: Chase Strangio’s victories for transgender rights, the star power of Dolly Parton, and a new poem by Louise Glück. View in browser | Update your preferences Profiles Andrew Cuomo, the King of New York The Governor has been widely praised for his response to covid-19. But his critics see a would-be authoritarian obsessed with settling scores. By Nick Paumgarten Annals of Activism Chase Strangio’s Victories for Transgender Rights The A.C.L.U. attorney works as a representative in every sense of the word. By Masha Gessen A Reporter at Large Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem? By Andrew Marantz Onward and Upward with the Arts Adrianne Lenker’s Radical Honesty In her folk-rock songwriting and in interactions with her Big Thief bandmates, the musician’s raw openness creates strange and thrilling effects. By Amanda Petrusich Books The United States of Dolly Parton A voice for working-class women and an icon for all kinds of women, Parton has maintained her star power throughout life phases and political cycles. By Lauren Michele Jackson Comment Donald Trump’s Consistent Unreliability It is painful to reflect on the tens of thousands of lives that might have been saved if a less reality-challenged President had occupied the White House. By Steve Coll Podcast Dept. How We Lie to Ourselves About History “You’re Wrong About” debunks the stories of the past. But its real subject isn’t so much facts as the process by which we absorb them. By Rachel Syme Books Philosophy in the Shadow of Nazism After the First World War, the members of the Vienna Circle tried to put European thought on a rigorously logical footing. Then the times caught up with them. By Adam Kirsch Poetry and Humor Poems “Song” A new poem by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. By Louise Glück 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.