Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State

Plus: how the pandemic intensifies economic racism; Trump’s Cold War with China; and Joyce Carol Oates. View in browser | Update your preferences News Desk The Pandemic Has Intensified Systemic Economic Racism Against Black Americans Without bold government action, many African-Americans will have an especially hard time recovering from the recession. By Steven Greenhouse Annals of Infrastructure Urgent Care from the Army Corps of Engineers While Trump flails in the pandemic, the military’s builders are getting it done. By Paige Williams Our Columnists Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State The callous nihilism of contemporary Russian society is everywhere in the Trump Administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Masha Gessen Our Columnists Why Trump Will Never Win His New Cold War with China Unlike the Cold War with Moscow, it would be a lonely campaign, as the U.S. now lacks the allies, economic power, and standing to prevail over Beijing. By Robin Wright Q. & A. The Constitutional Case Against Trump’s Use of the D.H.S. The D.H.S. presence in Portland “seems more like a terrorism response than a response to vandalism at courthouses,” Mary McCord, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, said. By Isaac Chotiner PAID POST New from Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy. Flash Fiction Flash Fiction “Hospice/Honeymoon” “Once the word is uttered aloud, there is a seismic shift. You will feel it.” By Joyce Carol Oates Culture and More Books Rethinking the Science of Skin What is all the scrubbing, soaping, moisturizing, and deodorizing really doing for the body’s largest organ? By Brooke Jarvis Onward and Upward in the Garden Don’t Get Caught Without Herbs During a summer of staying put, they provide a holiday in a leaf. By Charlotte Mendelson Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Tantalizing Fantasies After Four Months of Quarantine You stop by a bookstore to get a book that your friend keeps mentioning. You can’t find it on any of the best-seller tables. By Victoria Edel Daily Cartoon Thursday, July 30th By Lila Ash 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.