This Week’s Issue: The Underground Movement Trying to Topple North Korea’s Regime

Plus: Will Trump burn the evidence? And Louis Menand on Wikipedia, “Jeopardy!,” and the fate of the fact. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large The Underground Movement Trying to Topple the North Korean Regime Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them? By Suki Kim American Chronicles Will Trump Burn the Evidence? How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history. By Jill Lepore 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 Annals of Activism How to Stop a Power Grab As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance. By Andrew Marantz Comment What Does Trump Get Out of Contesting Biden’s Win? The election was not close, and the President’s claims of voter fraud are merely a distraction from his many recent failures. By Steve Coll Books Wikipedia, “Jeopardy!,” and the Fate of the Fact In the Internet age, it can seem as if there’s no reason to remember anything. But information doesn’t always amount to knowledge. By Louis Menand On Television Royal Competition in “The Crown” The show depicts not only how the Empire has crumbled but its descent into a kind of domestic crumminess. By Hilton Als 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 Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs First Lines of Rejected “Modern Love” Essays Of all the Etsy shops in all the towns in all the world, she bought used baby shoes from mine. By Zach Zimmerman 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.