This Week’s Issue: The Surgeon Who Bought the L.A. Times

Also in the Power Issue: Brené Brown's empire of emotion, the Arab-Israeli power broker in the Knesset, and Jennifer Gonnerman on a witness who recanted.  View in browser | Update your preferences     Profiles How Patrick Soon-Shiong Made His Fortune Before Buying the L.A. Times The billionaire doctor has become one of Los Angeles's most prominent civic leaders, after a boundary-pushing ascent in medicine. By Stephen Witt Listen to this story Have a world-class narrator read this to you.     American Chronicles Brené Brown's Empire of Emotion How a Texan's stories teach a nation to be vulnerable. By Sarah Larson     Letter from Israel The Arab-Israeli Power Broker in the Knesset Is Mansour Abbas changing the system or selling out the Palestinian cause? By Ruth Margalit     Annals of Justice When a Witness Recants At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They've all lived with the consequences. By Jennifer Gonnerman     Books Where Have All the Insects Gone? Scientists who once documented new species of insects are now charting their perilous decline—and warning about what it will mean for the rest of us. By Elizabeth Kolbert     Comment The Power of Dave Chappelle's Comedy He has always understood the risk of reinforcing the racial absurdities of American culture. The absence of such concern in "The Closer" is striking. By Jelani Cobb     Books Is Amazon Changing the Novel? In the new literary landscape, readers are customers, writers are service providers, and books are expected to offer instant gratification. By Parul Sehgal     Books Our Planet Is Heating Up. Why Are Climate Politics Still Frozen? Governments remain convinced that the market will solve our environmental crisis. By Olufemi O. Taiwo     The New Yorker Live David Chang Will Join the Next New Yorker Live On Tuesday, the Momofuku founder, David Chang, will discuss the future of food with Larissa MacFarquhar, exclusively for subscribers.   Humor from The New Yorker     Shouts & Murmurs Extinct-Species Waiting List What's next to go? The Bachman-Turner Overwarbler? The tufted budget hawk? The Xeroxed ass? By Bill Scheft     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.