How Ammon Bundy Helped Foment an Anti-Masker Rebellion in Idaho

Plus: the new COVID-19 relief package, a year without clothes, and the Cartoon Issue. View in browser | Update your preferences U.S. Journal How Ammon Bundy Helped Foment an Anti-Masker Rebellion in Idaho The COVID-19 pandemic has pitted establishment Republicans, who defer to public-health officials’ expertise, against hard-right libertarians. By Michael Ames Our Columnists The New COVID-19 Relief Package Is Flawed but Essential If Congress had done nothing, the U.S. would soon face a humanitarian disaster as well as an economic one. By John Cassidy Letter from the U.K. The Immense Relief of Health-Care Workers Receiving the Vaccine A surgeon who received the vaccine said, “You just had a sense that, actually, here was the light at the end of the tunnel.” By Anna Russell Daily Comment What the Era of Trump and the Coronavirus May Teach America’s Children The myths of national nobility do not exist for today’s first graders. By James Carroll 2020 in Review A Year Without Clothes Fashion, for me, has always been about the experience of moving through the world. How does it change when you’re dressing for yourself alone? By Rachel Syme The Cartoon Issue Cover Story Harry Bliss’s “In with the New” The artist discusses his life as a cartoonist and his cover, which pays homage to Charles Addams, for the Cartoon Issue of the magazine. By Françoise Mouly Comic Strip A Cartoonist’s Life Remembering a formative childhood experience involving a memo pad and a seventh-grade teacher, wherein hilarity did not ensue. By Roz Chast Sketchpad What Did You Accomplish in Line for a COVID Test? Knitting, reading, arguing, and royal-watching while waiting for the swab. By Jeremy Nguyen Back Page Comedian Caption Showdown We called in professional comedians—including Nick Offerman, Sarah Cooper, and Kyle Mooney—to caption a cartoon by E. S. Glenn. Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts How to Say I Love You, Freshly I decided to get Freshly for my parents, who are the Michael Che of my life, and they received meals for a while, but I never heard back from them. By Mike Birbiglia Crossword Today’s Crossword Unintimidated response to an ultimatum: ten letters. By Kameron Austin Collins Daily Cartoon Monday, December 21st By Ellis Rosen 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.