A Very Bad Night for Michael Bloomberg

Plus: Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, a dispatch from Antarctica, and the case for open borders. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment A Very Bad Night for Michael Bloomberg in a Chaotic Democratic Debate During his first appearance on a Presidential-debate stage, the former New York mayor appeared unprepared to address his past failings. By Amy Davidson Sorkin The Current A Bloomberg Pile-On at the Debate At the debate, Bloomberg muddled his way through deflections after Warren challenged him to release women who had filed complaints against him from their nondisclosure agreements. By Michael Luo Campaign Chronicles North Carolina and the Battle for the Democratic Nomination Campaign staffers are finding that Democrats in the state are as divided as their counterparts across the country, with many still undecided. By Peter Slevin Video Dept. Can Amy Klobuchar Maintain Her Momentum? Heading into Nevada, Amy Klobuchar and her supporters were beginning to tell themselves a new, more hopeful story about the Democratic primary. By The New Yorker Dispatch The One War That the Human Species Can’t Lose Human existence depends on Antarctica’s ice—and it’s now melting. By Robin Wright PAID POST From the world-renowned physicist and author of The Elegant Universe A captivating exploration of the cosmos and humanity’s search for purpose. “Greene remains one of our best living intermediaries between the sparkling, absolute-zero world of mathematics and the warm, clumsy world of human language.” –Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe Culture and More Annals of Inquiry The Case for Open Borders In a new graphic-nonfiction book, a libertarian economist conjures an alternative reality in which immigration is unlimited all over the world. By Zoey Poll Culture Desk Can the Wildlife of East Africa Be Saved? The Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey was uncompromisingly bleak, predicting that most of the animals are unlikely to survive far beyond the middle of the century. By Jon Lee Anderson Postscript What Charles Portis Taught Us The author of “True Grit,” who died on Monday, at the age of eighty-six, created characters imbued with a nontoxic masculinity. By Wells Tower Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts My Happy Place In my happy place, there’s no war, just armed conflicts. No racism, just racist dog whistles. It’s splendiferous! By Evan Waite Daily Cartoon Thursday, February 20th By Danny Shanahan 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 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.