Politics News from The New Yorker Today Date: June 14, 2017Author: connie dello buono 0 Comments Wednesday, June 14, 2017 Ryan Lizza Is Trump Now a Subject of the Mueller Probe? It’s probably not a matter of whether the President will be personally investigated. It’s a matter of when. BY RYAN LIZZA Onward and Upward with the Arts Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits The British-Ghanaian artist creates compelling character studies of people who don’t exist, reflecting her twin talents as a writer and a painter. BY ZADIE SMITH News Desk Where Trump Learned to Love Ritualized Flattery Trump’s Cabinet meeting this week reflected a lesson he learned from one of his biggest influences: Roy Cohn. BY DAVID MARGOLICK John Cassidy Why So Many Republicans Still Grovel to Trump With Trump in the White House and the Republicans running Capitol Hill, elective dictatorship appears to have crossed the Atlantic. BY JOHN CASSIDY PAID POST When the nation is in crisis, America needs a Giant. Al Franken tells the story of how he decided to run for office, only to discover why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. Amy Davidson Jeff Sessions’s Failure to Answer Questions His testimony presented a baffling problem in terms of the public’s right to be informed and the duty of Congress to provide oversight. BY AMY DAVIDSON Currency A Lawsuit Attacks the Marketing of Trump Two state attorneys general argue that the long list of business advantages the President has gained amounts to an unprecedented violation. BY SHEELAH KOLHATKAR Culture Desk Gertrude Bell and the Founding of Iraq What a new film cannot avoid is that her optimistic tone about the country she helped to found eventually gave way to something darker. BY ELIAS MUHANNA Photo Booth Nick Nichols’s Arresting Intimacy with the Wild World The widely admired wildlife photographer has travelled through some of the most forbidding terrain on Earth to seek out his animal subjects. BY PETER CANBY Daily Shouts New Very Illegal Thing Will Finally Bring Down Trump Or be another cute tile in the mosaic of democracy’s demise, I guess. BY BROTI GUPTA AND KAREN CHEE Daily Cartoon Daily Cartoon Wednesday, June 14th. BY KIM WARP READ SOMETHING THAT MEANS SOMETHING TRY THE NEW YORKER FOR ONLY $1 A WEEK SUBSCRIBE FACEBOOKTWITTERFLIPBOARDPODCASTSSHOP View this message on a Web browser. Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. Click here to unsubscribe. This newsletter is a service of newyorker.com. Copyright © 2017 Condé Nast Digital. All rights reserved. Please read our Privacy Policy. 1 World Trade Center New York, NY 10007 Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInPrintEmailPocketPinterestTumblrRedditLike this:Like Loading... Related
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