This Week’s Issue: Trump Gets Dumped

Plus: how the pandemic may have changed the office forever, a quest to save Kenya’s endangered animals, and Joan Didion. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Washington Why McConnell Dumped Trump After the Capitol assault—and after losing his perch as Majority Leader—the senator finally denounced the outgoing President. Was it a moral reckoning or yet another act of political self-interest? By Jane Mayer Comment Can Joe Biden Restore America’s Belief in Government? Despite the gravity of the challenges ahead, President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris are setting out with some distinct advantages. By Margaret Talbot Annals of Architecture Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? Companies are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace. By John Seabrook Personal History Living with a Visionary For more than fifty years, my wife and I shared a world. Then, as Diana’s health declined, her hallucinations became her own reality. By John Matthias A Critic at Large What We Get Wrong About Joan Didion She’s been canonized for impeccable style, but Didion’s real insights were about what holds society together, or tears it apart. By Nathan Heller A Reporter at Large A Kenyan Ecologist’s Crusade to Save Her Country’s Wildlife To get her fellow-citizens to care about threatened animals, Paula Kahumbu became a TV star. By Jon Lee Anderson Books What Are the Cultural Revolution’s Lessons for Our Current Moment? The great question of China’s Maoist experiment looms over the United States: Why did a powerful society suddenly start destroying itself? By Pankaj Mishra Books The Blackwell Sisters and the Harrowing History of Modern Medicine A new biography of the pioneering doctors shows why “first” can be a tricky designation. By Casey Cep Books How to Make Sense of Scents Can language ever capture the mysterious world of smells? By Rachel Syme Newsletters Sign Up for the New Yorker Recommends Newsletter Discover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Things That Are Different in Europe In Europe, the cupboards are full of wine for the baby, and the men shave their armpits. By Sarah Hutto Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. 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 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.