This Week’s Issue: Can Macron Stem the Populist Tide?

Lauren Collins profiles France’s young President. Plus: the hidden cost of GoFundMe health care. View in browser | Update your preferences Profiles Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? France’s young President is now Europe’s most forceful progressive. But violence at home and the success of right-wing parties throughout the Continent threaten his ambitions. By Lauren Collins Letter from California The Hidden Cost of GoFundMe Health Care When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins. By Nathan Heller A Critic at Large The Paternity Reveal Fatherhood used to be a matter of faith. What changes when science makes it a matter of fact? By Margaret Talbot Books Why Weather Forecasting Keeps Getting Better The stakes can be so much higher than whether you’ll need an umbrella today. By Hannah Fry The Pictures What Would New York Be Without the Beatles? Himesh Patel, the star of “Yesterday,” contemplates a city where the Dakota was just the setting of “Rosemary’s Baby” and no Fab Four ever set foot in Shea Stadium. By Michael Schulman Onward and Upward with the Arts Can Modern Dance Be Preserved? In safeguarding the legacies of innovators like Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, we risk losing their spirit. By Joan Acocella 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. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Singin’ in the Acid Rain A predicted hurricane of hail and fire doesn’t mean it has to be all gloomy and doomy for our class—except for Didi, who was swept away by a roving glacier on her way to school. By Patricia Marx Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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.