| In today’s newsletter, Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the V.P. debate. Plus, Rebecca Mead shares her favorite Queen Elizabeth II media. And then: • The A.I. slop problem
• China’s bubble-tea explosion
• Defending trans lives in a deep-red state | | | |
| But the matchup came down to Tim Walz’s record in Minnesota versus his opponent’s unfailing defense of Donald Trump.  Photograph by Chip Somodevilla / Getty The pressure was on last night to finish first—and J. D. Vance kept a stride ahead of Tim Walz, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes, in his analysis of the V.P. debate. Republican-friendly issues such as Iran and immigration dominated the first half hour, and Vance was quick to bring up the talking points that might reflect well on his party. Walz’s wins came later on. At one point, the Democratic nominee said, “I hope we have a conversation on health care,” to which the Republican responded, “Please.” Then they didn’t, for a while. And, as Wallace-Wells notes, “ ‘I hope we have a conversation on health care’ might end up being the story of the Presidential race.” Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | | | |
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The Political Scene Podcast: Clare Malone and Vinson Cunningham give a play-by-play of the “surprisingly policy-oriented” Vice-Presidential showdown. Listen and follow » | | | |
| Rebecca Mead
Staff writer  Photograph from Bettmann / Getty Why read, let alone write, another book about Queen Elizabeth II? There are shelf-loads already, in tones both sober (“The Queen,” by Ben Pimlott) and gossipy (“The Palace Papers,” by Tina Brown), and some even obsessively canine (“All the Queen’s Corgis,” by Penny Junor). I’ve read a bunch of them over the years, but Craig Brown, whose frolicsome “Q: A Voyage Around the Queen” I review in this week’s issue, has read them all, and much, much more—from an anodyne but nonetheless scandalizing memoir by the Queen’s former governess, Marion Crawford, to “Dreams about HM the Queen and Other Members of the Royal Family” by Brian Masters. Personally, I would never dream of dreaming about the Queen, but there is one regal cultural product that happily haunts me: the short sketch that she “performed” with an animated Paddington Bear on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee, in 2022. I’m no monarchist, but, when I hear Ben Whishaw-as-Paddington tell Her Majesty, “Thank you, for everything,” well, it would be churlish to do anything other than concur. | | | |
 Illustration by Ariel Davis “Those of us who have no interest in engaging with slop find ourselves performing a new kind of labor every time we go online—call it a mental slop tax,” Kyle Chaka writes, of the A.I.-generated images and text that dominate so much of social media. Weeding through the fakery to find the reality has become a job unto itself. Read the column » Infinite Scroll publishes every Wednesday. | | | |
| P.S. It’s partly her longevity that will keep Queen Elizabeth II’s book count higher than that of her heirs. But Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton—“two beautiful, preppy string beans,” to use Clare Malone’s description—will likely catch up a bit. Because, as Malone has shown, even the American media is obsessed. 👑 | | | |
Today’s newsletter was written by Hannah Jocelyn. | | | |
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