How Democrats Fared in the First Debate

New Yorker writers examine what we learned about the candidates last night. Plus: the long-shot candidacy of Tiffany Cabán. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists The First Democratic Debate Shuns Trump in Favor of Substance It was refreshing to see a group of career politicians, many of whom have spent years studying policy issues, having a serious discussion. By John Cassidy The First Democratic Debate Our Columnists Elizabeth Warren’s Reformism Versus Trump’s Moral Crisis The question isn’t how far left the Democratic Party has moved. It is whether the problem is the swelling imbalance between rich and poor, or Donald Trump. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells The Current Moderate Democrats’ Surprising Embrace of Elizabeth Warren There was a time, only a few years ago, when the Aspen Ideas Festival would have been a difficult crowd for the senator, but a lifetime in politics has passed since then. By Osita Nwanevu The Current Elizabeth Warren’s Caution on Guns The senator sidestepped a question about what to do about the hundreds of millions of guns in America. By Michael Luo The Current Mitch McConnell Looms Larger Than Trump The Senate Majority Leader was frustrating the Democrats’ agenda long before Trump won, and he may continue to do so if and when Trump is gone. By Eric Lach PAID POST From the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered is the highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. In this dual memoir, Karen and Georgia irreverently reflect on the events that shaped them into two of the most followed voices in the nation. More News and Culture News Desk Tiffany Cabán Upends Politics As Usual in Queens Cabán, a thirty-one-year-old public defender, came into the Democratic primary for Queens District Attorney as a long shot. By Jennifer Gonnerman Page-Turner “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside Out Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s début novel belongs to a lineage of books that show marriage weighing on the spirit, but it also critiques the one-sidedness of these accounts. By Katy Waldman The Front Row A Documentary of a Drag Pageant from Before “Paris Is Burning” “The Queen” centers on the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant and suggests a tolerance of queer life that was in fact unofficial, tenuous, and illusory. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Campaign Slogans for the Centrist Party “Like our symbol, the petrified deer, we’re proudly frozen in the middle of the road.” By Steven Markow Daily Cartoon Thursday, June 27th By Avi Steinberg Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.