| | | In today’s newsletter, how social media is changing migration, and then: • New Orleans parties on
• Forgiving Gottfried Leibniz
• John Mulaney is back on Broadway | | | | | Many people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize their lives, drawing others northward.  Photo illustration by Chantal Jahchan; Source photographs from Getty For migrants, the journey from South America to the United States is fraught and arduous—and, apparently, highly watchable. New arrivals are increasingly posting videos on TikTok, documenting their treacherous trek across the Darién Gap or capturing the moment when they descend the escalators at an American airport. Once established, immigrants often find that living conditions in the U.S. are far from ideal—there’s widespread unemployment, food and housing insecurity, crippling debt, extreme stress—but these hardships are rarely included in the heartwarming, curated clips they continue to post. “Migrants begin to show themselves living, in real time, the sueño americano for which they risked everything,” Jordan Salama reports, in this week’s issue. And the gulf between real life and what is shared online is “having powerful consequences for their communities back home, where many people are relative newcomers to the mobile Internet.” | | | | | In the News |  Rioters on January 6th. Photograph by Balazs Gardi for The New Yorker A joint session of Congress met today to certify Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Four years ago, the Capitol was the site of a mass attack, when hundreds of angry protesters violently forced their way into the building. “There was an eerie sense of inexorability, the throngs of Trump supporters advancing up the long lawn as if pulled by a current,” Luke Mogelson, who was there on scene, reported. “Everyone seemed to understand what was about to happen.” Revisit his story, as well as David Remnick’s introduction to the House Select Committee’s full report of the attack and Antonia Hitchens’s reporting on the women keeping vigil for the incarcerated insurrectionists. | | | | | Our journalism relies on your support. If you believe in fearless, fair, and fact-checked reporting, please subscribe today. | | | | | | | U.S. Journal | | .jpg) Photograph by Octavio Jones / Reuters Fifteen people were killed in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day, when a man crashed his Ford F-150 electric pickup into a group of pedestrians on Bourbon Street and then started shooting. “Historians will look back at this terrorist attack and consider it one more jab in a three-hundred-year history of problems that New Orleans has faced,” a historian in the area tells Paige Williams. “We had the BP oil spill. We had Katrina. Now we have this.” But Carnival season traditionally begins today, the twelfth night after Christmas, and New Orleans is getting ready for it. Read the story » | | | |  | If you know someone who would enjoy this newsletter, please share it. Was it forwarded to you? Sign up. | | | | Culture Dept. |  Books He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep. By Anthony Gottlieb | | | | | The Boards John Mulaney Tries Pirate Talk in an “S.N.L.” Reunion“All In: Comedy About Love,” a collaboration between the comedian, his former writing partner Simon Rich, and the director Alex Timbers, brings lovelorn dogs, the Elephant Man, and babies to Broadway. By Naomi Fry | | | | |  | Free New Yorker Film Screening: See the magazine’s Oscar-shortlisted short documentary “Incident” with its director, Bill Morrison. Seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis for a 6 P.M. showing on Monday, January 6th, at the Metrograph. | | | | Fun & Games Dept. |  Shouts & Murmurs Expanding Our Two-Factor Authentication System Our top priority is making sure no hacker gets into your account. So, as soon as we locate your biological grandparents and compare their DNA to yours, we will allow you to safely log in to your account. By Talib Babb |  Sketchbook When Picasso Was Arrested for Stealing the “Mona Lisa” In 1911, the world’s most famous painting was stolen from the Louvre. By Paul Rogers | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle “The Last Samurai” author: eleven letters. By Natan Last |  Daily Cartoon Monday, January 6th By Robert Leighton | | | | |  | Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play a quiz from our archive » | | | | | P.S. “The Brutalist” took home several awards at the Golden Globes last night, winning in the drama categories for Best Picture and Best Actor, for its star Adrien Brody, as well as the award for Best Director, for Brady Corbet. Alexandra Schwartz recently profiled Corbet. “It seems like a good time to really shake viewers,” the director told her, of his current film. “I think they can handle it.” 🎥 | | | | Today’s newsletter was written by Hannah Jocelyn. | | | | | | | |
