Hope everyone is okay.
• On the podcast, James Blake is this week’s guest, talking police brutality.
• Before him, Madison Keys, reporting live from the intersection of kindness and competition.
• Speaking of podcasts, want a treat? Listen to David Law—who, along with Catherine and Matt, do such consistently strong work—going deep with Yannick Noah:
• It’s June 3 and the 2020 U.S. Open remains an ongoing concern. I know a lot of you share my ambivalence. We want tennis to return. But we want it to be maximally safe and under the right conditions—not because television wants to feed its maw with live sports programming.