Cavna: BENEATH THE COVERS: How New Yorker artist’s Ferguson ‘Broken Arch’ cover is filtered through his St. Louis past

THE NEW YORKER magazine covers are often topical, of course, but for the two most recent issues, they have particularly tapped the power of polarization.

On Monday, the front of a new issue was graced by “First Thanksgiving,” a Bruce McCall painting that struck a cultural two-fer by spoofing Thanksgiving and satirizing the Redskins naming controversy — deriving pointed humor from the tension between its colonial-era Native Americans and its white, name-appropriating “hosts” in modern Washington jerseys.

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