The New Coalition Behind Joe Biden

Plus: Learning to love Bernie Sanders; the platitudes of “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”; and Jessica Simpson’s memoir of X-ennial fame. View in browser | Update your preferences Today is Super Tuesday. Primaries are happening in fourteen states and one territory. Follow our live results, and read our Election 2020 coverage. Our Columnists The New Coalition Behind Joe Biden The polls on the morning of Super Tuesday showed a staggering reversal in the Democratic race, with the former Vice-President pulling ahead of Bernie Sanders in many of the voting states. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Campaign Chronicles Bernie Sanders’s Long Weekend to Super Tuesday On the trail with the senator from Vermont as the Democratic Party establishment appears to unite against him. By Charles Bethea Campaign Chronicles As Bloomberg Campaigns, Money Talks At times, New York’s former mayor sounds like an investor in the Democratic Party who is worried about his returns. By Eric Lach Page-Turner The PowerPoint Platitudes of “Bloomberg by Bloomberg” The autobiography makes clear whom he sees and whom he doesn’t. By Jia Tolentino Daily Comment Black Voters and the Democrats’ Way Forward The results of South Carolina’s Democratic Presidential primary appeared clarifying for Joe Biden’s candidacy. Yet what happened there might not translate elsewhere. By Jelani Cobb Daily Comment Learning to Love Bernie Sanders, or Trying To Older liberals, having lived through a rightward turn that was barely tolerable, are terrified not that Sanders can win but that he can’t. By Adam Gopnik The Future of Democracy The Last Time Democracy Almost Died From our series on democracy in America: learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties. By Jill Lepore 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 Cultural Comment Jessica Simpson’s Mesmerizing Memoir of Recovery and X-ennial Fame We’ve known since the days of “Newlyweds,” her MTV reality series, that Simpson is a talker. She’s a writer, too, entrancing and somehow economical. By Lauren Collins Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Another “Impromptu” von Trapp Family Concert We get it! You’re all incredibly talented! Your grieving father is learning to love again! Now, can we eat our Funkenküchlein in peace? By Max Werner Daily Cartoon Tuesday, March 3rd By Elisabeth McNair 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.