The Pied Piper of SPACs

Plus: the Republican assault on voting rights, the anniversary of D Day, and America’s shrinking Little Leagues. View in browser | Update your preferences Sunday, June 6, 2021 Letter from Silicon Valley The Pied Piper of SPACs Chamath Palihapitiya says that the investment tool lets ordinary people get rich off startups. It may be hype—but hype can be its own economic engine. By Charles Duhigg Comment The Republicans’ Wild Assault on Voting Rights in Texas and Arizona What began as thinly veiled attempts to keep Democrats from the polls has become a movement to undermine confidence in our democracy itself. By Sue Halpern Cultural Comment What Gets Lost as Little Leagues Get Smaller Town leagues, unprofessionalized and open to all, knit neighborhoods together in ways that intensive and competitive travel teams do not. By Nicholas Dawidoff Double Take Sunday Reading: Celebrating Pride Month From the magazine’s archive: a selection of pieces about the progress of the L.G.B.T.Q.-rights movement. By The New Yorker Sketchpad Reopening Time! New York creatures great and small are coming out of their hidey-holes. By Ellis Rosen From the Archive A Reporter at Large The Anniversary of the D Day Landings A 1944 report from Normandy. By A. J. Liebling Culture and More The Front Row “Compensation,” a Modern Classic Rescued One of the greatest independent films, never released theatrically, is available on the Criterion Channel. By Richard Brody Poems “The Great Confinement” “Year of forgetting in the days’ drift. Then / abruptly remembering.” By Sandy Solomon Poems “Spring” “Your death is only two weeks old.” By Ishion Hutchinson Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts So, You Want to Be a New Yorker Cartoonist I solemnly swear we won’t publish anything by you without compensating you for it. By Emma Allen Cryptic Crossword The Cryptic Crossword: No. 53 9-Across: Wild horses heard in city borough: five letters. By Monika Zook 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.