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Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up major tech companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google reflects a growing awareness of the drawbacks of relaxed antitrust enforcement.http://nyer.cm/33kzT5O 

Tuesday was the first real test for Boris Johnson, and he failed it, @tnycloseread writes.http://nyer.cm/sIifQMb 

In some of the most affecting moments in Jonas Mekas’s documentary, Martin Scorsese watches Leonardo DiCaprio’s and Vera Farmiga’s performances intently, gesturing elegantly and expressively as if he were not following them but conducting them.http://nyer.cm/4lxUZlc 

Bianca Andreescu’s wildly entertaining victory against Taylor Townsend in the fourth round at the U.S. Open earned the 19-year-old tennis player a spot in the women’s quarter-finals.http://nyer.cm/hOJpdE0 

Most of the black American exiles in Paris adhered to an unspoken agreement that they wouldn't intervene in France’s internal affairs, above all colonial rule in Algeria—a subject William Gardner Smith addressed unflinchingly in his novel “The Stone Face.”http://nyer.cm/Fzq0v9Q 

Human composting, which involves corpses being turned into soil, is now legal in Washington State.http://nyer.cm/cqyPtOb 

Nineteen-year-old Bianca Andreescu has earned a spot in the women’s quarter-finals at the U.S. Open. In recent years, only two teen players have advanced as far.http://nyer.cm/gr0SZBI 

Nanfu Wang's award-winning documentary shows the obscene impact of China's one-child policy: forced sterilizations, kidnappings, and abandoned newborns left to die.http://nyer.cm/rs2p9ay 

Twenty-one Tory M.P.s turned against Prime Minister Johnson on Tuesday, in a vote to prevent a no-deal Brexit. The United Kingdom, at the moment, seems almost leaderless.http://nyer.cm/loYOCbj 

Measles cases have recently turned up in 30 states, with 1,006 cases in New York alone. To combat the disease, public-health officials are taking on the anti-vaccination movement.http://nyer.cm/ngowQu8 

Previously a proudly D.I.Y. act, the rap collective Brockhampton teamed up with the producer Rick Rubin to create their clear and concise new album, “Ginger.”http://nyer.cm/q3c4rOw 

“The Inheritance,” a play opening soon on Broadway, transposes E. M. Forster’s classic Edwardian English story to contemporary New York’s queer community, in the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic.http://nyer.cm/116XPgp 

In Jonas Mekas’s documentary, Martin Scorsese is charmingly self-deprecating about “The Departed”—after describing the story as a tale about informers, the police, and gangsters, he adds, “I guess it’s like other movies I’ve made.”http://nyer.cm/zwp1dBx 

Reviewing a century of negative commentary on women's voices, which have long been criticized as "shrill."http://nyer.cm/3DhRHm5 

Comparing Donald Trump's tweets from this August to those from two years ago reveals that the volume and frequency of his dysfunctional posting seem to have gone up.http://nyer.cm/uJTOWMo 

After collaborating with Raf Simons on a runway show, Sterling Ruby thought, “Fuck being an artist—this is wonderful.”http://nyer.cm/nmKCpxP 

The artist Vija Celmins produces relatively little work and vigorously resists all forms of self-promotion. But, as she enters her 80s, her attitude may be changing.http://nyer.cm/N0hvTFx 

Every-Choice-You-Make-Is-Permanent Markers, and other school supplies for harried adults.http://nyer.cm/0trGNy2 

“She had the distinct feeling that someone was staring at her. Looking around, she saw the stone.” A new short story by Louise Erdrich.http://nyer.cm/m8TWL4n 

The photographer Alex Prager invents a neo-noir L.A. in her intricate tableaux, deploying special effects with often surreal results.http://nyer.cm/jBOHmJ4