A Pediatrician's Efforts to Save Victims in El Paso

Plus: Representative Veronica Escobar speaks out about gun violence, and climate change threatens the world's largest bat colony. View in browser | Update your preferences As Told To A Mexican-American Pediatrician Describes Treating El Paso’s Shooting Victims Jorge Sainz struggled to save patients from wounds that he would only expect to see in military conflicts. By Charles Bethea Q. & A. Representative Veronica Escobar Speaks Out After El Paso “I don’t understand the mind-set that you can’t talk about what happened because somehow it is disrespectful to the victims,” Escobar said. By Isaac Chotiner Annals of Inquiry Why Doctors Should Organize Meeting the challenges of modern medicine will require more than seeing patients. By Eric Topol Dispatch The Changing Climate Inside the World’s Largest Bat Colony The migration patterns of the Bracken Cave bats are changing, but experts say these adaptations won’t be enough to counter the effects of climate change. By Carolyn Kormann Our Columnists Taking Stock of Trump and the Democrats As the summer recess arrives, the President will pursue one of his main campaign strategies for the 2020 election: demonizing the Democratic Party. By John Cassidy Culture and More Page-Turner The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet Anne Lock was the first English poet to publish a sonnet cycle—more than thirty years before Philip Sidney’s “Astrophil and Stella.” By Jamie Quatro Culture Desk How the Cover Song Conquered Movie Trailers The production of custom-tailored, trailer-ready, high-drama cover songs has become a cottage industry. By Alex Pappademas Screening Room “Best of Luck with the Wall” Puts the Borderlands Back in Context In the short film, satellite photographs of the U.S.-Mexico border prompt curiosity about the people living near it and the people trying to cross it. By Sarah Larson Puzzles Dept. The Weekday Crossword Alternative to “lil” in hip-hop sobriquets: four letters. By Kameron Austin Collins Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts People Boris Johnson Resembles The obviously drunk lead in a regional dinner-theatre production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and other figures. By Naomi Fry Daily Cartoon Monday, August 5th By Tim Hamilton 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.