How a Deadly Police Force Ruled a City

Plus: the destruction of Black Lives Matter murals, and Bill Buford on a French answer to apple pie. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from California How a Deadly Police Force Ruled a City After years of impunity, the police in Vallejo, California, took over the city’s politics and threatened its people. By Shane Bauer U.S. Journal The Defacement and Destruction of Black Lives Matter Murals In Tulsa and other U.S. cities, street art that served as a summer rallying cry is now under threat from vandals, pro-police groups, and local governments. By Victor Luckerson Our Columnists What Will a Vengeful President Do to the World in His Final Weeks? A lame-duck Donald Trump may seek to shore up his dismal foreign-policy legacy with military strikes or premature troop withdrawals—at the risk of sabotaging Joe Biden. By Robin Wright PAID POST Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement A history of the anti-vaccination movement, from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today's anti-vax activism, offering strategies for refuting its claims. Kitchen Notes A French Answer to American Apple Pie Tarte aux pommes includes fruit cooked and not so cooked, pastry the texture of buttered air, and a presentation that’s a gift, like a painting. By Bill Buford Culture and More Page-Turner When the Enslaved Went South In the four decades before the Civil War, thousands of fugitive slaves escaped from the U.S. to Mexico, where they found both unfamiliar risks and high rewards. By Alice Baumgartner Books How Paul Celan Reconceived Language for a Post-Holocaust World His poems, now translated into English in their entirety, are an invitation to a new kind of reading. By Ruth Franklin At the Museums A Missing Jacob Lawrence Painting Reappears After Decades How an Upper West Sider learned that the picture on her living room wall was wanted over at the Metropolitan Museum. By Alexandra Schwartz Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Fun Ideas for My Next Existential Crisis Getting divorced, dyeing my hair, searching for meaning—or my keys, which are always missing. By Ginny Hogan and Jason Chatfield Daily Cartoon Thursday, November 19th By Jon Adams 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.