A Racist in the White House

David Remnick on the President's tweets. Plus: the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing, and Trump's safe-third-country agreement with Guatemala. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment A Racist in the White House Will Trump’s voters flee or remain loyal to a bigot? By David Remnick Our Columnists Trump’s Overt Racism Is Unnerving Some Republicans Just how far does the President have to go before his Party colleagues muster the independence to register some semblance of a protest? By John Cassidy Our Columnists The Fight Over Who Belongs in Government The U.S. government may have assimilated Trump, but he seems to think the jury is still out on Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. By Masha Gessen News Desk Trump’s Failed Safe-Third-Country Agreement with Guatemala “The Guatemalans did not know what they were getting into,” a Trump Administration official said. By Jonathan Blitzer Q. & A. Donald Trump’s Takeover of the G.O.P. Tim Alberta’s new book is a history of the Republican Party over the past decade, how it moved right, and why it eventually gave way to Trumpism. By Isaac Chotiner More from The New Yorker Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction Newsletter Book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. Time Capsule Our Columnists Neil Armstrong, Over the Moon Among the Pandas In June, 2001, I took the astronaut and his wife, Carol, to the National Zoo. You’d have thought he had never done anything so interesting in his life. By Robin Wright Culture and More Personal History A Novelist’s Stint Impersonating the Ultra-Rich in China Alone in the empty palatial suite, seven thousand miles from home, I felt paralyzed. I was part of a sham, but any move I made could cause lasting harm. By Chia-Chia Lin Comma Queen Sympathy for the Semicolon Cecelia Watson’s deceptively playful-looking book is a scholarly treatise on a sophisticated device that has contributed eloquence and mystery to Western civilization. By Mary Norris Page-Turner How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy With “The Gifted School,” by Bruce Holsinger, fiction steps into the breach. By Katy Waldman Books The Art of Aphorism Why are these fragments of wisdom—empirical or mystical, funny or profound—such an enduring form? By Adam Gopnik Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Writer’s Envy Applied to Other Professions “My childhood was way too healthy for me to make it as a psychologist.” By Evan Allgood Daily Cartoon Tuesday, July 16th By Teresa Burns Parkhurst 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.