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From: NYTimes.com To: Subject: The New York Times Magazine: The New Party of No Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:05:04 +0000 View in Browser Add to your address book. the New York Times ESPAThe New York Times Friday. March 17. 2017 NYTimes.com » The 2016 election was both an electoral and existential crisis for the Democratic Party — one that left the party internally divided, unclear on where it stood with the American people and stripped of power at every level of federal authority. Surveying the wreckage, Democrats realized that the only lever they would have to exert any influence at all on Donald Trump's plans for the country was the narrow minority the party still possessed in the Senate — a caucus under the leadership of Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, a lawmaker who was better known as a deal maker than as a fire-breathing partisan. In this week's cover story, Charles Homans tells the story of how the party struggled to find its footing in the early days of the Trump presidency, and how it has begun to wrestle with the central dilemma it woke up to on Nov. 9: "The Democrats, who spent Obama's presidency railing against Republican obstructionism, would soon be facing a president who was all but inviting them to try the same," Homans writes. "Whether this was in Schumer's DNA was one question. Whether it was in the party's was another." Elsewhere in the magazine, Joshua Hammer reports on how Egypt's democracy activists, six years after the Arab Spring, became "generation jail." Jonah Weiner writes about Derek DelGaudio, a magician who wants to break magic. John Herrman asks, if everything can be "weaponized," what should we fear? And Sam Anderson introduces New Sentences, a column analyzing notable lines from recent books, movies, songs and more. Happy reading, Jake Silverstein Editor in Chief EFTA00716900 G;',Elizabeth Warren, who has made her reputation in Washington as the Democrats' conscience. . reputation in Washington as the Democrat? conscience. Photo illustration by James Victore FEATURE The New Party of No By CHARLES I How a president and a protest movement transformed the Democrats. Rperek DelGaudio WT, Prison, on the outskirts of Cairo. Emily Shur for The New York Times Rena Effendi for The New York Times FEATURE FEATURE The Magician Who Wants How Egypt's Activists to Break Magic Became `Generation Jail' Derek DelGaudio takes illusionism to new Six years after the Arab Spring, the country's conceptual heights. democracy activists live under constant threat of prison — or worse. EAT The Secret That Brings These A Pancakes to Life I, , A fruit-filled pancake as thick and even as a layer of birthday cake. EFTA00716901 LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION Letter of Recommendation: Stump the Bookseller A blog about children's books demonstrates the universal pain of mostly forgotten memories. ADVERTISEMENT Illustration by Derek Brahne) FIRST WORDS If Everything Can Be `Weaponized,' What Should We Fear? ByJOIIN We risk obscuring real sources of violence when a tweet can be considered a tool of war. EFTA00716902 Willie Cotton Pickers, Ferguson Unit, Texas." Danny Lyon/Magnum Ph +- Illustration by Melinda Josh. ON PHOTOGRAPHY LIVES A Photograph Never Putting a Faithful Friend to Stands Alone the Test By TE.113 COLE As told to DMITRIY FROLOVSKIY Danny Lyon's photograph of prisoners toiling in a The religion of a companion causes a sectarian cotton field can be better understood alongside split. other images of labor. TALK Brianna Wu Wants to Change the Democrats' Playbook In' \\ 1MARIE (/ The congressional candidate on what the Republican Party is doing right and how being a Gamergate target prepared her to run for office. NEW SENTENCES New Sentences: From `Serious Sweet' by A.L. Kennedy B. - '.:•I ANDERSON In 27 words, the Scottish novelist gives character to the little disruptors that live in our pockets. ADVERTISEMENT EFTA00716903  GJ GJ FOLLOW NYTimes Tw @nytmag Get more NYTimes.com newsletters » Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. Subscribe ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYlimes.com's The New York Times Magazine newsletter. Unsubscribe Manage Subscriptions Change Your Email Privacy Policy Contact Advertise Copyright 2017 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 rr EFTA00716904