How the Protests Have Changed the Pandemic

Plus: marching with George Floyd’s family; Trump’s fascist performance; and Maxine Hong Kingston’s genre-defying work. View in browser | Update your preferences Medical Dispatch How the Protests Have Changed the Pandemic Mass demonstrations in all fifty states have upended reopening timetables and altered the meaning of the antiviral fight. By Dhruv Khullar Dispatch A Peaceful Protest, Cut Short by Police, with George Floyd’s Family At the march on Tuesday in Houston, where Floyd grew up, local officials had a lot riding on the appearance of nonviolence. By Bryan Washington Q. & A. A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different Opal Tometi discusses what it would mean to defund police departments and what’s next for the social-justice movement. By Isaac Chotiner Letter from Trump’s Washington #BunkerBoy’s Photo-Op War Is this an authoritarian crackdown by Donald Trump or just another politicized spectacle? By Susan B. Glasser Our Columnists Trump’s Fascist Performance To the President, power sounds like gunfire and helicopters; it sounds like the silence of men in uniform when they are asked who they are. By Masha Gessen The Political Scene From 2017: Is Tom Cotton the Future of Trumpism? The junior senator from Arkansas is a hybrid of insurgent and old guard. By Jeffrey Toobin Profiles Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea. By Hua Hsu From the Archive News Desk Photos of Tiananmen Square, 1989 Thirty-one years ago, on June 4th, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army opened fire on civilian protesters who had been gathering for weeks in Tiananmen Square, in the center of Beijing, to call for political reform. By The New Yorker Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Social-Media Challenges That Are Too Complicated to Go Viral “Put on Jeans” Challenge: Sorry, Levi’s, we’re never wearing jeans again. We’ve progressed to a highly developed sweatpants culture. By Talib Babb Daily Cartoon Thursday, June 4th By Victor Varnado This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.