The Promise and the Peril of Virtual Health Care

Plus: Trump and Barr, comparing the protests in the U.S. and in Hong Kong, and the black birders movement. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Medicine The Promise and the Peril of Virtual Health Care During the coronavirus pandemic, telemedicine looks like the future of health care. Is it a future that we want? By John Seabrook Daily Comment For Now, Donald Trump and William Barr Are Losing Their Way The Attorney General’s ham-handed firing of a U.S. Attorney captured the corruption and incompetence in the Trump Administration. By David Rohde Our Columnists What Trump Has in Common with the Last President to Lose Reëlection Like George H. W. Bush, in 1992, Donald Trump is struggling to come to terms with a changed political environment. By John Cassidy Daily Comment Telling the Stories of the Protests Here and in Hong Kong While Donald Trump repeatedly denigrates journalists as “the enemy of the people,” Xi Jinping likely says to himself, “That’s why I silenced them.” By Jiayang Fan Q. & A. How a Prominent Evangelical Thinker Came Around to Trump The head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says he intends to vote for Trump’s reëlection “because the alternative is increasingly unthinkable.” By Isaac Chotiner Letter from the U.K. How Statues in Britain Began to Fall The toppling of a statue in Bristol, along with a series of Black Lives Matter protests across the U.K., has revived a long-simmering debate over monuments to Britain’s past. By Anna Russell PAID POST Read the latest novel from the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation “Moshfegh does a masterful job with Death In Her Hands, which follows a protagonist who believes she’s solving a murder. The book moves seamlessly from suspenseful to horrifying, retaining the reader’s attention all the while.” —Marie Claire Culture and More Books Frank Kameny’s Orderly, Square Gay-Rights Activism An astronomer for the Army Map Service was an unlikely, but crucial, combatant for erotic freedom. By Caleb Crain Georgia Postcard Corina Newsome and the Black Birders Movement The wildlife conservationist helped organize #BlackBirdersWeek after a white woman called the cops on a black birdwatcher in Central Park. By Carolyn Kormann Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Three-Step Crisis Management for the High-End Karen So someone caught you on camera, aggressively not minding your own business. What now? By Rich Benjamin Daily Cartoon Tuesday, June 23rd By Brendan Loper 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.