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    Jan 11

    Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker:

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  2. “It can feel intrusive,” a resident of South Korea said, of her government’s response to COVID-19, “and some people aren’t happy with this or that. But this is how we’ve kept cases and deaths so low.”

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  3. At 7:30 P.M. on December 5, 1955, with no manuscript and only a few notes, Martin Luther King, Jr., got up to deliver one of the greatest speeches of his career—and with it, he had found his calling.

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  4. . reviews “The Flight Attendant,” on HBO Max, and “Bridgerton,” on Netflix.

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  5. Elizabeth Alexander on attending Barack Obama’s first Presidential Inauguration, in 2009, at which she read a poem she composed for the occasion.

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  6. C.E.O.s, on average, make almost 300 times what their employees make, billionaire donors shape our politics, and the best health care goes to the richest. And yet people don’t agree about what, exactly, “equality” means.

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  7. A selection of new emojis to express how we’re all truly feeling.

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  8. From 1964: Calvin Trillin on the civil-rights struggle in Mississippi, and a brief encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  9. The Bay Area’s relatively successful response to the coronavirus pandemic may be due to a unique and little-discussed factor: its past.

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  10. A program in Stockton, California—historically, the foreclosure capital of the U.S.—has been providing an unconditional $500 per month to a group of residents.

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  11. Are subscription newsletter services like Substack a reaction to social media, or its evolution?

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  12. Anthony Lane reviews “Dear Comrades!,” a new film by Andrei Konchalovsky, about a 1962 uprising in small-town Russia that turned violent.

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  13. . on the “Animaniacs” reboot, which retains the original show’s endearing zaniness while occasionally irritating with its constant knowingness.

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  14. From 1989, a visit with the New York City chef on whom “Seinfeld”’s “Soup Nazi” is based.

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  15. How far has the F.B.I. gone to protect white supremacy? A new documentary reveals how the agency first surveilled Martin Luther King, Jr., and then attempted to destroy his reputation and public life. Listen to a conversation with the director.

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  16. Watch footage recorded by the veteran war reporter Luke Mogelson, who followed Trump supporters as they stormed the U.S. Capitol and forced their way into the Senate chamber.

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  17. On the world’s oldest temple and the dawn of civilization.

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  18. “But now your body is fallen in pieces around you. / Help me find a leaf for you to lie on, another / to cover you.” A poem by Jean Valentine.

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  19. From 2009: Jill Lepore writes about the history of American Presidents’ Inaugural Addresses, from George Washington to Barack Obama.

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  20. From Brazil to South Korea, how five different countries have responded to the coronavirus pandemic.

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  21. Among the more striking aspects of the Republicans’ response to the second impeachment of Donald Trump were their warnings that holding the President to account for his role in the assault on the Capitol would only lead to more violence.

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