Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran

Exclusive reporting from Susan Glasser. Plus: the love letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. View in browser | Update your preferences Friday, July 16, 2021 Letter from Biden’s Washington “You’re Gonna Have a Fucking War”: Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran Inside the extraordinary final-days conflict between the former President and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs. By Susan B. Glasser Medical Dispatch Treating the Unvaccinated Across the U.S., doctors are facing a wave of preventable COVID deaths—and trying to convince the hesitant that “it doesn’t have to be this way.” By Dhruv Khullar Daily Comment The Unlikely Rebound of Mainline Protestantism For the first time in decades, a study finds that white mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals in the U.S. By Bill McKibben Cultural Comment The Love Letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West For two writers who recorded so much, it is odd that there is little to no written record of their intimate encounters. By Summer Pierre Culture and More The Current Cinema How “Settlers” Avoids the Perils of Mars Movies Wyatt Rockefeller’s film about refugees from Earth carving out a hardscrabble existence on the red planet blends the high tech and the humdrum. By Anthony Lane Postpartum Dept. Grotesque, Menacing, Monumental: Motherhood! At a cocktail-fuelled art-history lecture with Emily Ratajkowski and Huma Abedin in the audience, Sarah Hoover and Christy Turlington Burns discussed the gnarly cultural narratives around giving birth. By Hannah Goldfield From the Archive Annals of Technology The Light of Trinity, the World’s First Nuclear Bomb On this day in 1945, early in the morning, the flash of the first-ever nuclear explosion illuminated the skies over the New Mexico desert. By Alex Wellerstein Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts How to Experience New York City Like a True Local If you don’t tip at least twenty per cent, you will be the first to die when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finally starts the class war. By Blythe Roberson Daily Shouts Cicada Dance Moves Do the whack and the hop. Vocals optional. By Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn Daily Cartoon Friday, July 16th By Amy Hwang 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.