Mike Pence’s Trumpian Makeover

Plus: the new Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück, the national-security threat of the pandemic, and what happened when medical residents asked for hazard pay. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Trump’s Washington Mike Pence’s Trumpian Makeover at the Vice-Presidential Debate Pence has become a lower-decibel version of the President, lying with fluency and brazenness. By Susan B. Glasser Our Columnists A Straightforward Debate About a Catastrophic Presidency By the end of the evening, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence had already drifted into the background, leaving the race more or less as it was. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Daily Comment Covid-19 at the Vice-Presidential Debate The shortfalls in Harris’s responses about the coronavirus pandemic were eclipsed by the outrageousness of Pence’s. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Our Columnists The Pandemic Is Now a Threat to National Security The entire Joint Chiefs of Staff have gone into quarantine, and the rest of the world knows it. The potential dangers abound. By Robin Wright Medical Dispatch What Happened When Medical Residents Asked for Hazard Pay At the peak of the pandemic in New York, a debate highlighted the medical profession’s persistent inequities. By Daniel A. Gross Culture and More Page-Turner How Louise Glück, Nobel Laureate, Became Our Poet For decades, she has taught us the contours of our own inner lives. By Dan Chiasson Culture Desk An October Surprise in New England What will happen next? The leaves will fall, and the winds will rise, and the sky will turn the white of winter. And the people, huddled inside, will get angrier and lonelier and angrier. By Jill Lepore Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts How to Vote by Mail Practicing democracy now that U.S.P.S. mailbags have been replaced with a “Flintstones”-style prehistoric pelican that carries your letters in its mouth pouch and says, “Eh, it’s a living.” By Felipe Torres Medina Daily Cartoon Thursday, October 8th By Kim Warp 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.