Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday Revival

Plus: How pandemics change history; can “RuPaul’s Drag Race” save us from Trump?; and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” View in browser | Update your preferences To win the Democratic nomination, a Presidential candidate needs to claim 1,991 delegates. Follow The New Yorker’s live delegate count as the 2020 Democratic primaries continue. Our Columnists Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday Revival If Tuesday night’s results point toward a broad, national victory for the former Vice-President, then that outcome will be strangely separate from the campaign that preceded it. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Campaign Chronicles Bernie Sanders’s Unsettling, Unfinished Super Tuesday The primary results coming in were “like a bad flashback,” one supporter said, at the candidate’s Super Tuesday party in Vermont. By Charles Bethea Q. & A. How Pandemics Change History The historian Frank M. Snowden discusses the politics of restricting travel during epidemics, how inhumane responses have upended governments, and how artists have reacted to disease outbreaks. By Isaac Chotiner Dispatch The Strange Terror of Watching Coronavirus Take Rome In the past few weeks, as the virus spread, the city emptied out. By Stephen Greenblatt News Desk How South Korea Lost Control of Its Coronavirus Outbreak The spread of COVID-19 threatens to derail the Presidency of Moon Jae-in and his plans for peace with North Korea. By Suki Kim Daily Comment Netanyahu’s Cynical Finish in the Israeli Election The Prime Minister apparently didn’t have to prove that he is not corrupt; it was enough just to raise the possibility that Gantz—and everybody else—may be. By Bernard Avishai Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction Newsletter Book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. Culture and More Culture Desk Can “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Save Us from Donald Trump? “When I vote in my first Presidential election,” a student said, “I feel like I’ll be voting for the queens who are on the show.” By Lizzie Widdicombe Cultural Comment More Than a “Manifesto on the Female Gaze” In “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” Céline Sciamma thoroughly explores the entanglements between artistic creation and burgeoning love. By Rachel Syme Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs The Electable Female Candidate From the archive: She reaches across the aisle with soft, moisturized hands. By Claire Friedman Daily Cartoon Wednesday, March 4th By Ellis Rosen 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.