The New Yorker - 09.03.2020

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 39 Charles Laughton took the lead in a 1947 production of Brecht’s “Galileo.” Nevertheless, even t ...

40 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 Pacific might never have existed with- out her. Viertel had been in L.A. since 1928, when her ...

THE NEW YORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 41 written before the First World War but not published until 1918, is the definitive portrait of ...

42 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 the radio; he furtively admired hand- some men in uniform; he puzzled over the phenomenon of t ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 43 the country. Mann rejected the concept of inner emigration when it surfaced after the war, and ...

44 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 THE POLITICAL SCENE WINNING Brad Parscale used social media to sway the 2016 election. He’s p ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 45 On Facebook, Parscale moved fast and broke things, but it seems that the things he broke were n ...

46 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 Obama’s campaign manager in 2008, told me recently. “Which is understandable, given how powerf ...

Company, Texas Hill Country Land- scaping. But Parscale was also open to political commissions. In 2010, he de- signed a campaig ...

48 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 Parscale built DonaldJTrump.com, a bare-bones home page for Trump’s Pres- idential exploratory ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 49 border war between Texas separatists and the government of Mexico. Project Alamo soon grew to m ...

50 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 Kenshoo, based in Tel Aviv—to send sub- contractors to work for him in San An- tonio. Sprinklr ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 51 Project Alamo staffers also experi- mented with what are commonly known as “dark posts”—Faceboo ...

52 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 Shannon McGregor, wrote that embeds “go beyond promoting their services and facilitating digit ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 53 days later, he tweeted, “My goal was to show that digital is the future of cam- paigns. Check.” ...

run by Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, an alumna of the Obama and Clinton cam- paigns. Before the operation could get off the ground, ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 55 platform’s rules do not prohibit lying, at least not when politicians do it. In October, Zucker ...

56 THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 ANNALS OF EDUCATION TEST CASE Prep for Prep and the fault lines in New York’s schools. BY VINS ...

THENEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020 57 alent search for high-achieving students of color. Kids who are selected attend extra classes f ...

confusion, or anger. Back in 1968, he told me, a few teachers at P.S. 140 decided to break the strike early. “I probably was the ...