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The Supreme Court’s summer vacation ends in three weeks. For some of the justices, it was not an entirely restful one. Two of the court’s liberal members have warned in unmistakable terms that the court’s recent actions have led it to a legitimacy crisis of sorts. “Each time the court upends precedent, it does create discomfort in the society,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned at a California lawyers’ event earlier this month. “I think there’s an innate understanding, or at least expectation, that... Читать дальше...

So, what will this week bring for the Trump family? It can hardly be worse than last week, when the facts laid out by New York Attorney General Letitia James made it clear that not one, or two, or three, but four of them may one day be taking up residence in Trump Sing Sing (hey, it’s right on the Hudson—maybe Ivanka will get a view!).

The fence may not seem momentous. But its symbolism is deep. It adds dignity and definition to a small, grassy yard that is full of memories. It’s where Ramona Burton’s young son drove in his red toy convertible; where she and her husband, Edward, barbecued steaks; where they raised AKC German shepherd puppies like Shii, who was bashful at first but became “the wildest thing in the world.”

There is fierce competition for the title of America’s worst senator. Ted Cruz, the perennial front-runner, is smug and oleaginous—hated equally by his colleagues and the public. Josh Hawley, who did more than perhaps any other person in the U.S. Senate to aid Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn a lawful election, is another leading contender. Lindsey Graham, the Senate’s remora, has become considerably craven now that he’s suckered himself onto Donald Trump’s body. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema... Читать дальше...

In 1936, The New Yorker’s Wolcott Gibbs published a celebrated profile of Henry Luce, co-founder with Briton Hadden of Time magazine. The piece was written entirely in parodic Time-ese. In those days Time’s house style favored Homeric epithets, portmanteau neologisms, and sentences where verbs, adverbs, and adjectives were yanked violently from their customary place and shoved in front of proper nouns. Here’s Gibbs’s most famous paragraph: