Trump Is the Election Crisis He Is Warning About

Plus: Herman Cain; Immanuel Kant; and lingerie startups. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Trump’s Washington Trump Is the Election Crisis He Is Warning About When a sitting President threatens to delay a sacrosanct American ritual, you’d better listen. By Susan B. Glasser News Desk The President’s Brazen Attempt to Win Over Latino Voters With help from Mexico’s President, Trump is trying to gain support from Hispanics in battleground states that could deliver him a second victory. By Stephania Taladrid Daily Comment Trump’s Distorted View of How to Keep America Safe The President’s notion that a miracle coronavirus cure can yield an economic revival that would boost his chances for reëlection puts his constituents at great risk. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Postscript Herman Cain, a Man Who Paved the Way for Trump The former Presidential candidate, who died on Thursday, of COVID-19, was an anomaly: a Black Republican with an unorthodox campaign style. By Charles Bethea Video Dept. How the Coronavirus Has Changed Chinatown The historic Manhattan neighborhood is home to more than three thousand small businesses, many of them eateries that have been hit especially hard during the pandemic. By Han Zhang Newsletters Sign Up for the New Yorker Recommends Newsletter Discover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Culture and More Pop Music The Rallying Cry in Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album On “Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon,” the charismatic New York rapper, who was killed in February, sounds like a young man exploring all his possibilities. By Carrie Battan The Front Row A Physical Comedy of the Philosophical Life “The Last Days of Immanuel Kant” follows the famously abstemious philosopher as he’s anticipating his death, yet it’s a physical comedy filled with neo-slapstick intimacy. By Richard Brody On and Off the Avenue Bramancing the Braless: Notes on Nine Lingerie Startups How different are these newfangled garments from the ones we’ve been wearing (or not wearing) forever? By Patricia Marx Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Mask for Mask It’s not you, it’s . . . well, it is you, but maybe it’s also a misguided sense of what personal freedom means in America. By Lester Fabian Brathwaite Daily Cartoon Friday, July 31st By Hartley Lin 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.