Trump Attempts an Autocratic Breakthrough by Declaring Victory

Plus: it isn’t over yet, but Biden has ground for his confidence; and how the coronavirus hacks the immune system. View in browser | Update your preferences Follow the latest 2020 election results, state by state, on The New Yorker’s election map, which we’ll update until the last vote is tallied. Our Columnists It Isn’t Over Yet, but Biden Has Ground for His Confidence Until we get more information from Arizona and Pennsylvania, nobody should jump to any conclusions. But there is a reason that the betting markets have installed Biden as the prohibitive favorite. By John Cassidy Our Columnists Trump Attempts an Autocratic Breakthrough by Declaring Victory For all the apparent flailing and incompetence of his Administration, Trump’s authoritarian aspirations have largely succeeded. By Masha Gessen Coronavirus Chronicles How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us. By James Somers Photo Booth Photo Booth The Faces of Americans Living in Debt A new book by Brittany M. Powell depicts people struggling under the weight of owing money. By Margaret Talbot Culture and More Books Searching for Refuge After the Second World War The end of the war brought a sense of possibility—a chance to redefine civilization. But for Jews displaced throughout Europe more doors closed than opened. By Amy Davidson Sorkin The Current Cinema Matriarchs of Steel in “Let Him Go” Formidable mothers face off, in a brutal Western about two families struggling to keep pace with the machinations of fate. By Anthony Lane If U Cn Rd Ths A Speed-Reading App Condenses the Jeffrey Epstein Saga The book-summarizing service Blinkist tried to distill Ghislaine Maxwell’s four-hundred-and-sixty-five-page court deposition into a bite-size slab. By Antonia Hitchens Video Dept. How to Draw Snails Slow, slimy, and easy—but not too easy—to draw, these creatures are a cartoon staple. By Emma Allen and Amy Hwang Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts How to Support Your Friend Who Wants to Run a Marathon Tips for when an old friend wants to run a distance so great that incontinence is a genuine possibility. By Jason Hayes Daily Cartoon Thursday, November 5th By Yasin Osman 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.