THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Barry Blitt’s “Polling Place” – An election strategy.

The Republicans’ Remarkably Bad Midterm Campaigns

Things were going poorly even before Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ran the most offensive ad of the year. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Charles Kushner and the MAGA Ambassador’s Playbook

Since taking up his post in Paris, Kushner has become known for lobbing provocations onto France’s domestic scene at sensitive moments. As he put it, “Nobody has the courage to say what I say.” By Lauren Collins

The State Officials Defending the Midterms from the President

Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way. By Barton Gellman

How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest

The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on. By Nick Paumgarten