The Promising Results of a Citywide Basic-Income Experiment

Plus: Jeff Sessions, Desus and Mero, and Jill Lepore on the invention of the police. View in browser | Update your preferences News Desk The Promising Results of a Citywide Basic-Income Experiment A program in Stockton, California—historically, the foreclosure capital of the U.S.—has been providing an unconditional five hundred dollars per month to a group of residents. By Linnea Feldman Emison Campaign Chronicles Jeff Sessions’s Defeat in Alabama, a Final Insult from Donald Trump The President had already cast his former Attorney General out of Washington; now he wanted to bury him. By Eric Lach Annals of History How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds The plague marked the end of the Middle Ages and the start of a great cultural renewal. Could the coronavirus, for all its destruction, offer a similar opportunity for radical change? By Lawrence Wright The New Yorker Interview Desus and Mero Have Conquered Comedy The duo on transforming TV, dealing with cops, and how to be funny without being a jerk. By Carrie Battan PAID POST Will one band change the world, or will the world change them? From David Mitchell, the New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas comes Utopia Avenue, a kaleidoscopic novel about music, madness, idealism—and the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. The New Yorker Documentary The New Yorker Documentary Female Mountain Bikers Explore the Romance of the Crash in “On Falling” In Josephine Anderson’s short documentary, three athletes talk about what their sport has taught them about transcendence and risk. By Louisa Thomas Culture and More A Critic at Large The Invention of the Police Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery. By Jill Lepore Cultural Comment When Marian Anderson Defied the Nazis The African-American contralto gave a brilliant demonstration of her full humanity at a time when white supremacists wanted to deny it. By Kira Thurman Crossword Today’s Crossword Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction: five letters. By Aimee Lucido Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Valuable Lessons I Learned from Statues Without Mount Rushmore, I would totally have forgotten about that crazy time we had a four-headed man as our U.S. President. By Cara Michelle Smith Daily Cartoon Wednesday, July 15th By Keith Knight 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.