What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for the Pandemic’s End

Plus: an interview with Spike Lee, Peter van Agtmael’s Iraq War photos, and Biden’s Civilian Climate Corps. View in browser | Update your preferences Medical Dispatch What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for the Pandemic’s End The virus is mutating—but we can still beat it, one vaccination at a time. By Dhruv Khullar Daily Comment The Civilian Climate Corps Is a Plan That All Americans Can Embrace Biden’s proposal draws on a New Deal program that created jobs and helped unite the country. By Jim Lardner Comment New York’s Year of COVID There is plenty to be anxious about as people emerge from their pandemic confinement. But here in the city there are green shoots. By Nick Paumgarten Photo Booth Peter van Agtmael’s Absurd, Grotesque Chronicle of the Fallout from the Iraq War The images in his new book, “Sorry for the War,” show how the war twists and perverts whatever it touches, over there as well as over here. By Luke Mogelson Double Take Sunday Reading: Digital Lives From the magazine’s archive: stories about the perils and possibilities of our increasingly digital existence. By The New Yorker The New Yorker Interview Spike Lee Sees the Parallels A conversation with the director about “Da 5 Bloods,” racial uprisings, and catching hell. By Vinson Cunningham Culture and More Culture Desk Black and White “There was a parade of cheap TV sets that made their way through my home when I was a kid.” By Fred Noland Poems “Poem That Ends at the Ocean” “How the poem gets there / doesn’t much matter, just so at last / it arrives.” By Jim Moore Poems “Number Theory” “We know we’re living with a patient // companion, like you, inquisitive.” By Rosanna Warren Worst Case Dept. Problem-Solving with Minecraft’s Zombies Mel Brooks’s son, the author and worst-case scenarist Max Brooks, thinks his new novel, based on the video game, can teach kids critical-thinking skills, like how to approach asymmetric warfare. By Bruce Handy Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Places Beyond Boredom Are you “Gumby”-reruns bored or meet-my-spirit-animal bored? By Clare Twohy and Mike Twohy Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Crossword: No. 82 See you later in Buffalo hangout (5). By Trip Payne You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.