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Plus: George Floyd and the Tulsa massacre, the pop star Olivia Rodrigo, and Walt Whitman in Brooklyn. View in browser | Update your preferences Annals of Technology How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying. By Rachel Monroe Memorial Day U.S. Journal The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre Two pioneering Black writers have not received the recognition they deserve for chronicling one of the country’s gravest crimes. By Victor Luckerson Daily Comment George Floyd, the Tulsa Massacre, and Memorial Days The two tragedies make for easy inferences about the importance of commemoration. But this is not how trauma works. By Jelani Cobb From the Magazine Pop Music How Olivia Rodrigo Became Pop’s Brightest New Star On “Sour,” Rodrigo delivers eleven semisweet songs, almost all of them about love gone wrong. By Kelefa Sanneh In Translation Our Local Correspondents The Struggle to Improve Vaccination Rates Among Latinos in New York Vast disparities in immunization levels persist between the city’s communities. By Stephania Taladrid Our Local Correspondents La lucha por mejorar las tasas de vacunación entre los latinos en Nueva York Enormes disparidades persisten en los niveles de inmunización entre las comunidades de la ciudad. By Stephania Taladrid From the Archive Books Revisiting the Streets That Spawned Walt Whitman’s Masterpiece Walt Whitman—who was born on this day in 1819—worked on “Leaves of Grass” in a building at the edge of Brooklyn Heights. By Paul Berman Humor and Puzzles Crossword Today’s Puzzle National park with campgrounds on Mount Desert Island: six letters. By Kameron Austin Collins Shouts & Murmurs Fifty Less Punchy Ways to Leave Your Lover While you’re at it, Stan, make some new friends, too—I don’t want to keep hearing about how well you’re doing. Same goes for you, Jack. And Gus. And Roy. By Simon Webster Daily Cartoon Monday, May 31st By Liza Donnelly You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for The Daily from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.