The Coronavirus and the Threat Within the White House

Plus: why the election must go ahead on time, and the students left behind by remote learning. View in browser | Update your preferences Comment The Coronavirus and the Threat Within the White House The best security system and the most solicitous medical officers in the world could not protect Donald Trump from a danger that he insisted on belittling and ignoring. By David Remnick Our Columnists Despite Trump’s Hospitalization, the Election Must Go Ahead on Time The President’s COVID-19 diagnosis is yet another challenge to the country’s democratic norms. By John Cassidy Medical Dispatch After Trump’s Diagnosis, What’s His Medical Outlook? The President is in a high-risk group for severe COVID-19. So are many of the people with whom he works. By Dhruv Khullar Annals of Education The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning The desire to protect children may put their long-term well-being at stake. By Alec MacGillis Q. & A. Doris Burke on Life Inside the N.B.A. Bubble The longtime sports journalist on basketball’s new environment, league politics, and how her profession has changed in the last thirty years. By Isaac Chotiner Newsletters Sign Up for the New Yorker Recommends Newsletter Discover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Culture and More Fiction “Rainbows” “Mystique was important to me at that time, and some nationalities had more mystique than others.” By Joseph O’Neill Culture Desk The Elusive Mariah Carey’s New Memoir What the singer-songwriter hides and reveals in “The Meaning of Mariah Carey.” By Emily Lordi On Television The Brilliant Awkwardness of “Pen15” Like some of the best fictions centered on adolescence, “Pen15” is incredibly good at showing girls’ painful emotional and physical hunger for the gaze of uninterested, often cruel boys. By Naomi Fry Humor and More Daily Shouts New-Parent Riddles If a baby soils her diaper and both parents pretend not to notice, is the diaper really soiled? By Claire Friedman Crossword The Weekend Crossword HBO political comedy that starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus: four letters. By Robyn Weintraub 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.