Why McConnell Dumped Trump

Plus: Andrew Yang’s bid to turn New York into the “anti-poverty” city, the takedown of a dark-Web marketplace, and new fiction from Allegra Goodman. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Washington Why McConnell Dumped Trump After the Capitol assault—and after losing his perch as Majority Leader—the senator finally denounced the outgoing President. Was it a moral reckoning or yet another act of political self-interest? By Jane Mayer Our Local Correspondents Can Andrew Yang’s Ideas on Universal Basic Income Win Him Votes? His pitch in the mayoral race is for New York to become the “anti-poverty” city. By Eric Lach News Desk The Takedown of a Dark-Web Marketplace One of the world’s largest illicit bazaars was shuttered using data seized from a fortified bunker in Germany. By Ed Caesar Atlanta Postcard A Trump Holdout in Atlanta L. Lin Wood, a Georgia defamation attorney who cried when Nixon resigned, still believes that the former President won the election, and he wants Mike Pence to be charged with treason. By Charles Bethea Culture Fiction “A Challenge You Have Overcome” “Steve imagined telling people, I never read my kid’s college applications. No! they would cry, disbelieving.” By Allegra Goodman This Week in Fiction Allegra Goodman on the Parents of Teens The author discusses “A Challenge You Have Overcome,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine. By Cressida Leyshon Page-Turner “Kink” Confronts the Challenge of Turning Sex Into Literature In this ambitious anthology, short stories sit at various intersections of smolder and technical accomplishment. By Katy Waldman The Front Row Ten Movie Masterpieces to Stream on MUBI The site’s selections cull some of the best in recently released movies as well as hard-to-find classics, including some unduly obscure triumphs. By Richard Brody Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts “1984” (Keeping in Mind that I’ve Never Read It) Everything was, like, very bad. Only one man dared to defy the establishment. His name was Orwell. Orwell Jones. By Ellis Rosen Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Small order of greens: nine letters. By Caitlin Reid 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.