The Supreme Court Rejects Texas’s Shameful Lawsuit

Plus, our holiday gift guide, fighting COVID-19 in the Amazon, and the glory days of writing car ads. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment The Supreme Court Rejects Texas’s Shameful Lawsuit, But There Has to Be a Reckoning If prominent Republicans don’t renounce Trump’s campaign to overturn the election, they will do lasting harm to the country—and the early signs are not good. By Amy Davidson Sorkin On and Off the Avenue Just Give Your People Small Comforts: A 2020 Holiday Gift Guide From a transportive bath oil to an old-timey banker’s lamp to actually fun Zoom games, here are a few ways to spread the joy we all need. By Rachel Syme News Desk Fighting COVID-19 in the Amazon, with Herbs and the Internet Indigenous groups in Ecuador have been finding ways to trace and treat the disease. By Rachel Riederer The New Yorker Radio Hour Ayanna Pressley and Abigail Spanberger on the Rift in the Democratic Party Two prominent House members on a debate roiling the Democrats: Did a leftward turn cause losses in the November election? 2020 in Review Notable Performances and Recordings of 2020 Although I saw only three in-person events after mid-March, this COVID-19 year still brought music that was beautiful and melancholy, scrappily joyous, and everything in between. By Alex Ross More in Culture Culture Desk My Life in Cars I lucked into the romance of driving at its fervent peak. By Bruce McCall Fiction “Rwanda” “Darkness to hide him, to cover up his fears, his rage, his betrayals, his shame.” By John Edgar Wideman The Front Row A Lost Orson Welles TV Pilot as Groundbreaking as “Citizen Kane” “The Fountain of Youth,” now streaming on YouTube, is as artistically original for television as “Citizen Kane” was for the movies. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts A Pantry Prepped for Quarantine A can of human touch, a container of relaxed time with family—some of these supplies may come in handy during lockdown. By Lauren Barnett Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Extra song on an album: ten letters. By Robyn Weintraub 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.