Panicky Trump Brothers Seek Podiatrist Notes After Dad Sends Troops to Middle East
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a state of panic after their father dispatched troops to the Middle East, Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., have both sought medical notes from a Manhattan podiatrist. According to an official statement from Donald Trump, Jr.,’s spokesperson, John Barron, Jr., the two Trump boys obtained the medical notes “out of…
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Two Paths for the American Left
This past week was perhaps one of the most important weeks in one of the most important election seasons in the history of the Democratic Party. Elizabeth Warren is on the rise. Coverage of her array of policy proposals and hard campaigning has put her in second place over Bernie Sanders in at least one…
The Don and Joe Show
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Remembering Maida Heatter, a Charmingly Shameless Self-Promoter Who Became a Legend of Desserts
In 1968, when the Republican National Convention came to Miami, an enterprising coffee-shop owner named Maida Heatter decided that the best way to attract business would be with an audacious stunt: she tracked down a supplier of elephant meat and served the G.O.P. mascot sautéed in an omelette, with a side of bananas and crushed…
“The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy
The film that Jim Jarmusch’s new horror comedy, “The Dead Don’t Die,” most reminds me of is Frederick Wiseman’s “Monrovia, Indiana,” a 2018 documentary about social life and civic routines in a small Midwestern town. In its mournful and death-steeped view of Monrovia’s somnolent and baffled residents, Wiseman’s film struck me as a documentary version…
Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders the Future of the Republican Party?
Rare is the Trump Administration official who hasn’t burned out or been run out. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, who will leave her post at the end of the month, lasted longer than almost anyone. If she had stayed through July, she would have passed the two-year mark in what has been…
Sunday Reading: The Electrifying Critical Mind of Pauline Kael
Next week marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the film critic Pauline Kael. Her arrival at The New Yorker, in the late nineteen-sixties, heralded a revolution in cinematic taste—one that was often messy yet exhilarating. Kael articulated a provocative new vision of American cinema in which the most invigorating films blurred the boundaries…
The Six Remotes in Your Dad’s Entertainment Center
Lil Beep • Description: A small clicker that beeps at random intervals, like a dying smoke alarm or a needy app. Only has five buttons, none of which seem to do anything. It’s not an Amazon Fire Stick, but that won’t stop your dad from shouting at it. • Functionality: Might control the thermostat, but…
The Right to a Stable Climate Is the Constitutional Question of the Twenty-first Century
On June 4th, in a packed courtroom in Portland, Oregon, Judge Andrew Hurwitz, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, posed an unusual hypothetical question. “Assume that we have rogue raiders come across the Canadian border of the Northwest. They are kidnapping children of a certain age and murdering them,” he…
How Families Separated at the Border Could Make the Government Pay
If you’ve ever borrowed a ruffled cocktail dress or a sequinned jumpsuit from the fashion startup Rent the Runway, Suny Rodríguez might have helped with your order. She works at the company’s so-called Dream Fulfillment Center, a glorified warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey, where she sorts clothing for distribution. But, beginning in 2016, she also…