New from The New Yorker Radio Hour: Michaela Coel of “I May Destroy You” and the state of the Biden campaign.

The Political Scene
Steve Mnuchin

The High-Finance Mogul in Charge of Our Economic Recovery

How Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin became one of the most consequential policymakers in the world.

A Reporter at Large
Ronald Cameron

How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic

The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.

Campaign Chronicles
Mark Kelly on stage

Democrats Are Optimistic in Arizona

If Republicans are headed toward a reckoning in November, Arizona offers warning signals for their beleaguered party.

Annals of History
Black Death

How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds

The plague marked the end of the Middle Ages and the start of a great cultural renewal. Could the coronavirus, for all its destruction, offer a similar opportunity for radical change?

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Spotlight
A Critic at Large
The Chinatown Squad

The Invention of the Police

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Pop Music
The Chicks

Why the Chicks Dropped Their “Dixie”

The all-female country band, which survived an instance of proto-cancel culture for its politics in the past, again wants to meet the current moment.

Dept. of Policing
police

A Cop Flipped Him the Bird; He Joined the Police Academy

Keiyon Ramsey’s grandmother told him that Black families should never call the police; now he’s a deputy inspector in the N.Y.P.D., intent on enacting change from within.

Our Columnists
One person walks across a quad at Bowdoin.

What Do College Students Think of Schools’ Reopening Plans?

They should be taking the lead in reimagining what higher learning can look like during the pandemic.

Poems
A man writing a letter with a dove flying over his shoulder.

“A Stranger”

“I wonder if my dead mother still thinks of me.”

Crossword
Eustace with a crossword puzzle

A Challenging Puzzle

First Schwarzenegger film to reuse the catchphrase “I’ll be back”: eight letters.

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Anthony Fauci Is a Better Economist Than Donald Trump or Jared Kushner

Dr. Anthony Fauci.

By emphasizing the need to stop the renewed spread of the virus, Fauci is dispensing advice that jibes with what experts are saying is necessary for real economic recovery.

11:49 A.M.

I Am the Fireworks Man

Fireworks over Brooklyn.

Hello, I am the man who’s been setting off fireworks right outside your window for the past two weeks!

Trump Replaces Fauci with Chuck Woolery

Chuck Woolery.

“Chuck has made thousands of love connections that turned out a hundred-per-cent right,” Trump said.

July 13, 2020

A Turtle Leaves

Turtle slowly comes out of its shell.

Leaving is scary.

July 13, 2020
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From This Week’s Issue
Dance
Feet suspended in air.

The Fresh Relevance of the Dance on Camera Festival

The festival, now in its forty-eighth year, will stream films including Susan Misner’s “Bend” and Khadifa Wong’s “Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance.”

The Current Cinema
Palm Springs

“Palm Springs” and the Comedy of Eternity

Following in the footsteps of “Groundhog Day,” Max Barbakow’s spirited film turns a wedding into Purgatory, with bumbling speeches and so-so canapés on endless repeat.

On the Hustings
watching tv

Is Working with the Lincoln Project Sleeping with the Enemy?

Heath Eiden, a video producer who volunteered for Walter Mondale’s campaign as a kid, followed the “enemy-of-my-enemy” principle when he shot the new anti-Trump “Betrayed” ad.

Fiction
umbrella

“Jack and Della”

“She couldn’t be seen walking down the street with him without damage to her reputation, a risk a teacher can’t take.”

Video

When Humanitarian Aid Is Considered a Crime

Scott Warren’s arrest for providing shelter to two migrants posed a question to his community and the court: Under what circumstances could humanitarian aid be deemed illegal?

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Podcasts

Michaela Coel of “I May Destroy You,” and the State of the Biden Campaign

An illustrated portrait of Micaela Coel as her character in "I May Destroy You"

Staff writers discuss how the Democratic Presidential candidate is handling one of the most tumultuous periods in modern times. Plus, a conversation with Coel about dramatizing sexual assault on television.

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