The New Yorker - May 28, 2018

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1 GEORGIA POSTCARD WHISTLE STOP L ast week, Stacey Abrams headed north from Atlanta, in a big white bus, to persuade rural Georg ...

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did you ever hear that every kid who takes music class does better in math and science?’ They apologized, but they said they wer ...

“I’m just worried the knots are the only thing holding me together.” •• 1 IN MEMORIAM THE HERO’S JOURNEY O n a recent Tuesday, S ...

24 THE NEW YORKER, MAY 28, 2018 “My values are not his values,” John Feeley said, of Trump. He quit this March. A REPORTER AT LA ...

No Longer Serve This President,” he said that Trump had “warped and be- trayed” what he regarded as “the tradi- tional core valu ...

on territory split of from Colombia; the U.S., which had conspired in the se- cession plot, began building the canal the followi ...

by a new one, between Jared Kushner and Mexico’s foreign secretary. “It’s all pretty much just between them,” Feeley told me. “T ...

Beijing have provided more than a hun- dred and fifty billion dollars in loan commitments to the region—some years, more than th ...

Over time, the moral failings at home seemed to compound the tactical fail- ings abroad. In December, Feeley drafted his resigna ...

leader to paraphrase Angela Merkel and say, ‘We can no longer count on the Americans to provide leadership.’ ” The U.S. diplomat ...

SHOUTS & MURMURS LUCI GUTIÉRREZ A t twenty-three, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job. This is the beginning and th ...

32 THE NEW YORKER, MAY 28, 2018 The attention Denis pays her actors is an absorption that resembles love. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH ...

a drama about cockfighting in Paris (“No Fear, No Die,” 1990); a vampire thriller that French audiences booed for its ex- treme ...

and Claire—this scorny French lady— and in walks André.” Benjamin said, “I’ll be honest with you. I don’t know who you are or wh ...

me more than I was hurt by the ra- pist.” Denis told me, “I did recover. I did recover.” In subsequent years, Denis was an extra ...

the black ones are the first to die.” With “High Life,” Denis will inev- itably receive more international atten- tion than she ...

you don’t know how it’s done, I don’t know how it’s done, nobody knows how it’s done. You create chaos as a way of destabilizing ...

THE POLITICAL SCENE THE IMPEACHMENT WAR Can a grassroots movement throw Trump out of oice, or will it backre? BY JEFFREY TOOBIN ...