David Remnick on the Case for Biden to Step Aside

Plus: the unravelling of a radical evangelical church; the return of the Central Park Boathouse; and the joys of watching the Euros. View in browser | Update your preferences Sunday, June 30, 2024 Daily Comment The Reckoning of Joe Biden For the President to insist on remaining the Democratic candidate would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment. By David Remnick From the News Desk Fault Lines The Case for Biden Staying in the Race The known bad candidate is better than the chaos of the unknown. By Jay Caspian Kang Letter from the U.K. Britain Awaits a Wipeout Election After fourteen years of Conservative rule, how will Labour pick up the pieces? By Sam Knight Comment Finally, a Leap Forward on Immigration Policy President Biden has offered help to undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens, in the most consequential act of immigration relief in more than a decade. By Jonathan Blitzer If you know someone who would enjoy the daily, please share it. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up. Editor’s Pick On Religion Losing a Beloved Community I wanted to understand how a radical evangelical church fused faith and a commitment to social justice. Instead, I watched it unravel. By Eliza Griswold Dept. of Diversions The Sporting Scene Élite Gymnasts Are Aging Up It used to be assumed that a gymnast’s peak came around sixteen years of age. So why will the Olympic team be stocked with women in their twenties? By Louisa Thomas The Sporting Scene The Euros Are Like Europe, Only Better Something is afoot in this tournament, a spectacle that has been explosively enjoyable and peppered with surprises. By Anthony Lane Culture Dept. Fiction “The Hadal Zone” Arwen’s last thought before sleep is that he is in a twisting cyclonic fall down through the ocean trench to become a compressed speck of matter. It feels good. By Annie Proulx This Week in Fiction Annie Proulx on the Allure of the Ocean Deeps and the Value of Uninterrupted Time The author discusses her story “The Hadal Zone.” By Cressida Leyshon The Food Scene The Central Park Boathouse Is Back, and It’s Perfectly Fine Recently reopened under new management, the pricey tourist-bait canteen is more satisfying than it has any right to be. By Helen Rosner Fun & Games Dept. Shouts & Murmurs Parents in a Chain The great zucchini-bread disaster of 2024 and other mishaps, on a group text of moms and dads after the library bake sale. By Jay Martel Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play our trivia game » P.S. Annie Proulx has been contributing stories to The New Yorker for nearly three decades. “What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?,” from 2003, has all the hallmarks of her work: curious names, evocative prose, local flavor. It tells the tale of Budgel Wolfscale, who, in 1898, “built a shotgun cabin of hauled-out lodgepole, married one of the girls from a whorehouse in Ham’s Fork, and, naming the ranch after the harp his mother had played, thought himself a Wyoming rancher.” 🐴 What did you think of today’s newsletter? Let us know. If you like the daily newsletter, browse more New Yorker newsletters. You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for the daily newsletter from The New Yorker. Manage your preferences | View our Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2024. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.