Why John Delaney Won’t Drop Out of the Presidential Race

Also: writers remember Toni Morrison, and the trauma of making a viral video of a mass shooting. View in browser | Update your preferences Dispatch Why John Delaney Won’t Drop Out of the Presidential Race The former congressman from Maryland has outpaced the rest of the Democratic field in at least one respect: he is the only candidate to have visited each of Iowa’s ninety-nine counties. By Eren Orbey Dispatch The Trauma and Confusion of Making a Viral Video of a Massacre After Sylvia Saucedo survived the shooting in El Paso by hiding under a table, she was swarmed and attacked for bearing witness. By Charles Bethea Daily Comment After El Paso, Mexico Takes a New Approach to Trump The shooting has prompted Mexican authorities to consider taking a harder line with their neighbor to the north. By Stephania Taladrid Daily Comment Protesting Immigration Policy, and Why I Decided to Get Arrested Getting carted away seemed, somehow, like a necessary, if modest, gesture of solidarity with the people sitting for months on end in holding pens in the desert. By Bill McKibben Essay The Importance of Learning to See Latinos in Trump’s America The complexity of Latino communities has for too long been lost on the United States. By Graciela Mochkofsky PAID POST The opposite of racist isn't "not racist." It's antiracist. From National Book Award–winning author Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist powerfully reorients readers on race, justice, and equality. In Memoriam Page-Turner Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers George Saunders, Mary Karr, Jacqueline Woodson, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Alexander Chee commemorate the author and the expansive influence of her work. By The New Yorker Culture Desk The Perfect Little Lines of David Berman The Silver Jews musician sang with a chatty, knowing baritone, an intonation that always made you feel as if you were in on the joke. By Amanda Petrusich More in Culture Persons of Interest The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India On his blog and elsewhere, Mayank Austen Soofi is assembling a ground-level portrait of a megacity in a volatile age. By Karan Mahajan California Chronicles Rosé Berries Have Arrived Driscoll’s unveils its first non-red strawberry. By Dana Goodyear Screening Room The Satisfaction of the Full-Grid Crossword Answer A puzzle’s longest answers are a chance for solvers to revel in their skills and creators to show off their personality. By Katy Waldman Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Please Sublet My Apartment None of the bedrooms have windows, but they all have trapdoors. By Graham Techler and Alexander Laird Daily Shouts I Swear to God I’ll Let My Daughter Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth “No boy will ever be good enough for my princess” is a thing I would say—if I didn’t know that “princess” is a fundamentally patronizing epithet. By Sophie Kohn 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.