Biden’s Decisive Defeat of Sanders

Plus: touching your face during the coronavirus outbreak, the decline of democracy in America, and Rebecca Solnit’s new memoir. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Last Stop, Joe Biden For years, Presidential politics have been raucous, terrifying, and uncertain. The former Vice-President promises to compartmentalize them again. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells The Current Bernie Sanders’s Electability Argument Falls Apart in Michigan In 2016, the state was perhaps Sanders’s biggest victory. In 2020, it will go down as perhaps his decisive defeat. By Eric Lach Daily Comment Why Democracy Is on the Decline in the United States Analysts from the Washington-based think tank Freedom House cite the types of trends that they more customarily assign to fragile corners of the globe. By Evan Osnos Q. & A. Medical Ethics and the Novel Coronavirus A bioethics expert reflects on the importance of institutions talking through the implications of their decisions. By Isaac Chotiner Cultural Comment The Urge to Touch One’s Face Is Stronger Than Ever The current coronavirus crisis has reminded us that, for all our airs and graces, we are still dirty beasts. By Jody Rosen Daily Comment With the Coronavirus, Hell Is No Other People The evidence that cutting down on crowds can slow the spread and flatten the curve of eventual infection is clear. But isolation comes at a real cost. By Bill McKibben PAID POST From the bestselling, National Book Award–winning author LOUISE ERDRICH The Night Watchman is the latest novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Round House and LaRose. “Erdrich has an extraordinary ability to delineate the ties of love, resentment, need, duty, and sympathy that bind families together.”— New York Times CLICK FOR MORE Culture and More The World of Fashion Telfar Clemens’s Mass Appeal The New York designer admires Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood, but he is just as influenced by Macy’s and Marshalls. By Emily Witt Page-Turner Rebecca Solnit’s Memoir Is Much More Than a Feminist Manifesto Although she has long worked in a personal register, “Recollections of My Nonexistence” is the author’s first book not to take her existence for granted. By Katy Waldman Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Notes from a Couples Therapist for Former Reality-Show Contestants Lauren said that she had given Max a lot of passes, considering that he was dating twenty-eight other girls when they first met. By Katie Barsotti and Alden Derck Daily Cartoon Wednesday, March 11th By Jon Adams 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.