This Week’s Issue: The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids

Rachel Aviv reports. Plus: David Remnick profiles Paul McCartney; stash-house stings; and a chronicle of a slow-motion climate disaster.  View in browser | Update your preferences     A Reporter at Large The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse? By Rachel Aviv Listen to this story Have a world-class narrator read this to you.     Profiles Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show Half a century after the Beatles broke up, he's still correcting the record—and making new ones. By David Remnick     A Critic at Large It's Time to Stop Talking About "Generations" From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong. By Louis Menand     American Chronicles Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes The undercover operations seem like entrapment, but their targets can receive long sentences—sometimes even harsher than those for genuine crimes. By Rachel Poser     Annals of a Warming Planet Seventy-Two Hours Under the Heat Dome A chronicle of a slow-motion climate disaster that became one of Oregon's deadliest calamities. By James Ross Gardner     Comment Another Winter of COVID Nationwide, the Delta wave is waning, but what do the coming months hold? By Dhruv Khullar     The Current Cinema James Bond's Heavy Heart in "No Time to Die" Daniel Craig's last bow as Bond is often exciting, but there's something inward and agonized about the thrills. By Anthony Lane     Musical Events The Tense, Turbulent Sounds of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" Terence Blanchard's new opera, at the Met, deftly captures the churning inner world of its protagonist. By Alex Ross     Books Laurie Colwin's Recipe for Being Yourself in the Kitchen The bossy yet intimate style of her best food writing taught decades of home cooks to trust the strength of their convictions. By Rachel Syme   Humor from The New Yorker     Shouts & Murmurs A Time Traveller at the U.N. I'm from the future. You better change your ways, or get ready for dead crops, water wars, and moisture suits. By Dennard Dayle     Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week's magazine.   You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for This Week's Issue from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up.   Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our privacy policy    Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.