| |  Comment Kamala Harris for PresidentThe Vice-President has displayed the basic values and political skills that would enable her to help end, once and for all, a poisonous era defined by Donald Trump. By The Editors | | | | | From the News Desk | The Political Scene Podcast The Election Is Dividing Husbands and Wives Across America“We always have a gender gap,” the independent Democratic pollster Celinda Lake says. “It looks like it’s going to be on steroids this year.” | | | | | Editor’s Pick |  The New Yorker Interview Warren Hern, America’s Abortion DoctorHern, one of the few physicians who openly perform late abortions, has been receiving death threats since 1973. He thinks women are worse off today than they were back then. By Jia Tolentino | | | | | | | Dept. of Diversions | The Sporting Scene The Chicago White Sox’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad SeasonThe baseball team broke the modern-day record for most losses in a single season, but even lousy years have their limits. By Louisa Thomas | | The Front Row What to See in the 2024 New York Film Festival’s First WeekBaseball, murder, the politics of art, and the art of teaching are on display in the city’s prime showcase for ambitious movies. By Richard Brody | | | | |  | If you know someone who would enjoy the Daily, please share it. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up. | | | | Culture Dept. |  The Food Scene A Tiny Brooklyn Restaurant with Big (and Bewitching) Ideas About Dinner Cafe Kestrel, in Red Hook, offers cooking that is highly idiosyncratic but not confrontational, from applesauce sundaes to Sunday-night curry. By Helen Rosner |  The New Yorker Radio Hour Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power Gabriel Sherman on “The Apprentice,” his coming-of-age film about Trump. There are “parts of the film that I could imagine Donald Trump liking,” Sherman says. With David Remnick | |  Fiction “Stories About Us” Bridget said, “This is not the ‘why’ that expects a ‘because.’ It’s the ‘Why, how curious,’ with an exclamation mark!” By Lore Segal |  This Week in Fiction Lore Segal on Phone Calls, Proust, and the Poet Theodor Kramer The author discusses her story “Stories About Us.” By Cressida Leyshon | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. | Shouts & Murmurs If You Give a Mouse a Stress TestAnxiety causes gray hair in mice. A few methods for putting them on edge: ask if they identify as rodent or vermin; ask if they’re worried about the election. By Paul Rudnick | | | | |  | Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play our trivia game » | | | | | P.S. In Shouts & Murmurs, Claire Friedman explains what makes an “electable female candidate”: “She’s able to radically reshape society, but moderately.” Also, “she was raised on a farm in the middle of Central Park.” 🇺🇸 | | | | | | | |
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