Illustration by Golden Cosmos

Pete Buttigieg is positioning himself as a moderate to watch for in the Democratic Presidential race—a kind of outsider, neither an ideological leftist nor an establishment centrist. Can he overcome his lack of support from black voters? Patrick Radden Keefe talks with an Irish journalist about the fraught border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, and how Brexit raises the prospect of unrest in a region traumatized by conflict. The writer Carmen Maria Machado revisits a farmers’ market of her childhood, and the food correspondent Helen Rosner blows the lid off of lasagna with an ingenious cheat: wonton wrappers.

Can Mayor Pete Be a Democratic Front-Runner?

Pete Buttigieg is positioning himself as the moderate to watch for in the Democratic race. Can he overcome his lack of support from black voters?

How the Irish Border Keeps Derailing Brexit

Can the U.K. leave the E.U. without starting a war in Ireland? Patrick Radden Keefe explains how the memory of the Troubles throws a wrench into Brexit.

Carmen Maria Machado Spends “a Very Pennsylvania Day” at the Allentown Farmers’ Market

The author’s favorite place is a farmers’ market next to the hospital where she was born.

Helen Rosner Picks Three

TheNew Yorker food correspondent shares three current food-world favorites with David Remnick—and brings samples.