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    Dec 16

    Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker:

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  2. At the House impeachment vote, on Wednesday, Republicans parroted the lines that Trump has been feeding them since September, writes.

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  3. “Even during our most tempestuous moments, we can also find some common ground,” one Democratic senator says.

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  4. "Watchmen" and "The Boys" imagine society at its worst, and ask whether the world, with all of its flaws, corruption, and perversion, is even worth saving.

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  5. “Across the country, there’s a panic to collect documents, and the panic is mostly to be seen among poorer Muslims.”.

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  6. In many ways, it isn’t Donald Trump who faces the highest stakes in the impeachment process—it’s Nancy Pelosi.

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  7. Check out the other 41, and start planning your movie marathon for the holiday break.

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  8. Check out the other 41, and start planning your movie marathon for the holiday break.

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  9. Also on the list: “Frankie,” starring Marisa Tomei and Isabelle Huppert, who plays an actress dying of cancer. The ending, Brody says, is “one of the most memorable and inspired” in recent film.

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  10. The Syrian filmmaker Sara Fattah’s “Chaos,” not yet released in the U.S., is “an urgent, intimate view of exile.”

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  11. Rosine Mbakam’s first film, “The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman” (2016), is an exploration of family and national history by “an original filmmaker of exquisite sensibility,” Brody writes.

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  12. Brody also loved “High Flying Bird,” a D.I.Y. film about the business and politics of sports, by Steven Soderbergh.

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  13. Then there’s Jordan Peele’s new masterpiece, “Us”: “a work of directorial virtuosity.”

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  14. First up, Martin Scorsese’s blockbuster “The Irishman,” a movie Brody says is best enjoyed from the comfort of home.

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  15. . watched a *lot* of movies in 2019. He narrows his favorites down to 47—including theatrical releases, streaming releases, and a handful of unreleased films.

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    I wrote about why the costumes in whodunnit films are so deeply pleasurable, from Knives Out (aka The Sweater) to Clue (whose costume designer told me Madeline Kahn thought her dresses were possessed by Judy Garland). Join me on this journey.

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  17. The crew-neck sweater worn by Chris Evans’s character in “Knives Out” has become an object of lust and fascination for the public since the film débuted.

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  18. . on the case of Crystal Mason, a 44-year-old mother of three who was arrested for attempting to vote in her home state of Texas.

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  19. The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents himself as an ascetic economic visionary. He is also a hero of anti-Muslim bigots.

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  20. A cartoon by Ali Solomon.

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  21. A cartoon by Teresa Burns Parkhurst.

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