| | | | | The company’s internal documents were supposed to prove a progressive agenda—mostly, they have exposed the limitations of the platform and its new owner.  Photograph by David Paul Morris / Bloomberg / Getty Not long after Elon Musk bought Twitter, he offered a group of journalists exclusive access to internal documents related to the ways the company had handled sensitive public issues in the past, including the banning of Donald Trump and its interactions with the F.B.I. Musk imposed a series of conditions, and he selected journalists who were at least broadly sympathetic to his own public complaints about Twitter. Partly because of this, the resulting investigations, dubbed the Twitter Files, arrived “pre-factionalized,” as Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes in a sweeping analysis of the project thus far. “Conservatives have cheered their publication, while many progressives have either ignored them or rolled their eyes.” But even with these limitations, Wallace-Wells finds the Twitter Files to be “among the most interesting and the most complicated journalistic documents of the Trump era” of American life. It just might be, however, that the story is different from the one that Musk and his ideological allies think is being told. —Ian Crouch, newsletter editor Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | | | | Editor’s Picks |  Letter from Italy The Crisis of Missing MigrantsWhat has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe? By Alexis Okeowo | | | | |  Currency How Serious Are Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alleged Campaign-Finance Violations? He gave to Democrats, and claims that he also gave to Republicans through dark-money donations. But the money may have never been his to give. By Sheelah Kolhatkar |  Q. & A. What a Ban on Non-compete Agreements Could Mean for American Workers Companies often prevent employees from joining rivals. The Biden Administration wants that to end. By Isaac Chotiner | | | | | | | Notes on Hollywood | |  Photograph by Rich Polk / NBC / Getty Michael Schulman, our resident acceptance-speech connoisseur, rates the remarks from last night’s winners at the Golden Globes. He notes that the host, Jerrod Carmichael, gave the evening a tinge of danger, and writes, “If you ask me what the best thing about awards shows is right now, the answer is Jennifer Coolidge, whose singular cocktail of droll, discombobulated, and kooky always livens things up.” And for more from Schulman, read his history of when the Academy Awards got groovy, drawn from his upcoming book, “Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears.” | | | | Culture Dept. |  The Front Row “M3GAN,” Reviewed: A Clever, Hollow A.I. Spin on “Frankenstein”The robot’s mental life—and its mounting megalomania—are the most absorbing aspects of this enjoyable meld of science fiction and horror. By Richard Brody | | | | | Cotswolds Postcard For Sale: Evelyn Waugh’s Manor House, 8 BR/24 Acres/1 Waugh-Obsessed TenantThe estate where the author lived while writing “Brideshead Revisited” was recently sold, but the renters—a Waugh superfan and her partner—are refusing to leave. By Parker Henry | | | | | Screening Room |  The New Yorker Documentary An Octogenarian Tackles Her Bucket List in “FLOAT!”The filmmaker’s bubbe, who didn’t think she was important enough to be the subject of a documentary, learns to swim. Film by Azza Cohen Text by Yinuo Shi | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Will Nediger |  Daily Shouts Hey, New Mom, Have You Considered Relaxing? Also, while you’re at it, you should really take a moment to enjoy people telling you to relax. By Lucy Huber and Joanna Davis | |  Crossword A Lightly Challenging Puzzle Pres. Mandela’s nation, formally: Abbr.: three letters. By Aimee Lucido |  Daily Cartoon Wednesday, January 11th By Sarah Kempa | | | | | | P.S. In his new memoir, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, notes that he discovered the book’s epigraph, an often-cited line by William Faulkner—“The past is never dead. It’s not even past”—on the Web site BrainyQuote.com. He writes, “I thought, Who the fook is Faulkner? And how’s he related to us Windsors?” Here, for the prince, is some further reading about Faulkner and his demons. | | | | Today’s newsletter was written by Ian Crouch. | | | | | | | |
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