Ronan Farrow on Trump’s Damage to the State Department

Plus: Biden’s summit with Putin; when graphs are a matter of life and death; and remembering Janet Malcolm. View in browser | Update your preferences Thursday, June 17, 2021 News Desk Can Biden Reverse Trump’s Damage to the State Department? Reeling from the leadership of Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo, career officials wonder whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken can revitalize American diplomacy. By Ronan Farrow Letter from Biden’s Washington Joe Biden Just Had a Summit with Vladimir Putin and Nothing Crazy Happened The triumph of Geneva is that it was not Helsinki. By Susan B. Glasser Our Columnists Iran Moves Toward a One-Party State The Supreme Leader is willing to risk the legitimacy of an election to consolidate monolithic hard-line control. By Robin Wright Q. & A. The Trump Administration’s Extraordinary Leak Investigations A Times reporter on the news that Democrats’ and reporters’ phone data were seized by the Justice Department. By Isaac Chotiner From the Magazine A Critic at Large When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems. By Hannah Fry Culture and More Culture Desk The Guitar Playing of Julian Lage His music appears to be a revelation unfolding in real time—a genuine portrayal of an interior state. By Alec Wilkinson Remembering Janet Malcolm Profiles The Impossible Profession Janet Malcolm, who began writing for The New Yorker in 1963, has died. In 1980, Malcolm wrote about how Freud’s quest for a cure for nervous disorders “flowered into the vast system of thought about human nature—psychoanalysis.” By Janet Malcolm A Critic at Large A House of One’s Own “No life is more interesting than any other life,” Malcolm wrote in 1995, in an essay about the Bloomsbury group. “We are all locked into our own subjectivity.” By Janet Malcolm Life and Letters Three Journeys At the end of 1889, Chekhov abruptly dropped literature and began to make preparations for a six-thousand-mile journey to the prison colony of Sakhalin. Malcolm reflected on his writing about the trip. By Janet Malcolm A Reporter at Large Anatomy of a Murder Trial Malcolm reported on the 2009 trial of Mazoltuv Borukhova, a thirty-five-year-old physician accused of having her husband killed. Lawyers alternatively tried to paint Borukhova as an archetypal murderess and an ordinary working mom. By Janet Malcolm Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Some Recent Ergonomic Trends The Yogi, the Keytar, the Trampoline, and other pathbreaking approaches to office work. By Jake Goldwasser Daily Cartoon Thursday, June 17th By Elisabeth McNair 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.