Trump Allows the Biden Transition to Begin

Plus: the heavy toll of the Black Belt’s wastewater crisis; why Newsmax supports Trump’s false voter-fraud claims; and “Hillbilly Elegy.” View in browser | Update your preferences U.S. Journal The Heavy Toll of the Black Belt’s Wastewater Crisis Many rural households in America don’t have access to safe sewage systems. In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster. By Alexis Okeowo Our Columnists A Victory for Democracy: Trump Allows the Transition to Begin In an administrative sense, Donald Trump has conceded the fact that Joe Biden is the President-elect. By John Cassidy Q. & A. Why Newsmax Supports Trump’s False Voter-Fraud Claims Christopher Ruddy, the conservative network’s C.E.O., says that the President’s lies are “great for news.” By Isaac Chotiner Daily Comment Thanksgiving, the Coronavirus, and the Marshmallow Test With promising vaccines in development, the end is in sight: our job is to get everyone around us safely there. By Bill McKibben PAID POST From the best-selling author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” In her latest book of poetry, Margaret Atwood “infuses her newest poems with the flinty wit and surefire lucidity readers cherish in her best-selling, influential fiction” (Booklist). “Dearly” is filled “with reflections on life and death, time and change, nature and zombies” (Washington Post). On sale now Culture and More The Front Row The Silent Political Messaging in Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy” Adaptation Without any explicit politics, and barely any specificity at all, the new Netflix film espouses the same regressive ideology as J. D. Vance’s memoir. By Richard Brody The Art World The Metropolitan Museum at a Hundred and Fifty The museum is our Home Depot of the soul. It has just about whatever you want, and it has a lot of it. By Peter Schjeldahl The Pictures Don’t Typecast Lesley Manville The British actor, known for her work in Mike Leigh’s films, discusses nailing a North Dakota accent, playing Margaret Thatcher, and becoming Princess Margaret for “The Crown.” By Sarah Larson On and Off the Avenue Introducing The New Yorker Store Opening in time for the holidays, our new online shop offers limited-edition apparel, home goods, and other items for the New Yorker lover in your life. By The New Yorker Humor from The New Yorker Blitt’s Kvetchbook The State of Play for a Poker-Playing President Not so much winning. By Barry Blitt Daily Shouts Love Poems for the Office . . . or Wherever “When you say / ‘ping me,’ / I want to punch you.” By John Kenney Daily Cartoon Tuesday, November 24th By Peter Kuper 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.