Amy Davidson Sorkin
Staff Writer at The New Yorker
I'm a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.
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Oct 20, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Amy Davidson Sorkin
“Fools” is one of Neil Simon’s lesser plays. It involves a schoolmaster who, in some imaginary past, is sent to a Ukrainian village whose residents are burdened with a curse of stupidity. The comedy is broad. But in the nineteen-eighties a member of the Miami Palmetto Senior High School speech-and-debate team performed an extract, complete with an Eastern European accent, to great effect.
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Oct 9, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Andrea Kälin |Amy Davidson Sorkin
“You can see the Capitol from here,” Heather Shaner, a criminal-defense lawyer, says as she walks with her client Jack Griffith, a.k.a. Juan Bibiano, a.k.a. Liberty Dragon, to his sentencing hearing at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, in Washington, D.C. “It’s beautiful, right?”“It is beautiful,” Griffith replies, as they pause to look at the vista, down one of D.C.’s wide streets. His hair is styled in a double-braided mohawk, half red and half blue.
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Aug 18, 2024 |
rsn.org | Amy Davidson Sorkin
His campaign is careening, his poll numbers are slipping, and, after something of a summer lull, he is due for several confrontations in court. On August 7th, as thousands of people gathered at an airfield in Michigan to see Vice-President Kamala Harris and her just-announced running mate, Governor Tim Walz, Donald Trump signed paperwork notifying the federal government that he would be suing the Department of Justice for a hundred million dollars.
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Aug 17, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Amy Davidson Sorkin
On August 7th, as thousands of people gathered at an airfield in Michigan to see Vice-President Kamala Harris and her just-announced running mate, Governor Tim Walz, Donald Trump signed paperwork notifying the federal government that he would be suing the Department of Justice for a hundred million dollars.
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Aug 3, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Amy Davidson Sorkin
Politics, more than many fields, can be unjust.
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