Will Joe Biden Deliver at Tonight’s Debate?

Plus: the Democratic Presidential front-runners Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and how social media is helping survivors of Hurricane Dorian. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Can Joe Biden Remind Democrats What They Saw in Him? At tonight’s debate, he’s going to try. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Our Columnists The Growing Debate Over Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax If the senator’s tax plan works, it could gradually redress some aspects of the alarming rise in inequality we’ve witnessed in recent decades. By John Cassidy Campaign Chronicles Bernie Sanders’s Enduring Appeal to the Youth Vote in Iowa The most pressing question is not whether students will caucus for him over his younger opponents but whether enough students will caucus at all. By Eren Orbey The Political Scene A Battle for the Future of Conservatism Two prominent thinkers recently faced off over their starkly different visions for the movement. Their mutual dislike was plain to see. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Letter from Silicon Valley A New California Law Takes Aim at Uber and Lyft By requiring gig-economy companies to reclassify their workers as employees, Assembly Bill 5 will change the American labor market. By Nathan Heller PAID POST “Trump made himself out of television. He treated his life as a show.” In Audience of One, New York Times television critic James Poniewozik crafts a history of modern TV to explain how a camera-hogging antihero became president. Emily Nussbaum calls it “The Mueller Report of television criticism…. A witty, penetrating exposé.” Culture and More News Desk How Social Media Is Helping Survivors in the Bahamas As the islands struggle to recover from Hurricane Dorian, residents have used Twitter and Facebook to coördinate rescues and raise money. By Natalie Meade Comma Queen My Friend Dorothea Benton Frank The best-selling author, who died last week at the age of sixty-seven, had a love of grammar, gossip, and the South Carolina Low Country she called home. By Mary Norris Culture Desk The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly If Hasbro is serious about women’s empowerment, perhaps the company could start by admitting that a woman invented the board game. By Mary Pilon Listen Koffee, the Nineteen-Year-Old Artist Modernizing Reggae To understand the history and the future of Jamaican music, listen to this “singjay” and her explosive début single, “Toast.” By Doreen St. Félix Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Did You Lock the Door? You don’t really own anything that valuable anyway, which is equal parts comforting and upsetting. By Julia Edelman Daily Cartoon Thursday, September 12th 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.