Jeff MacGregor

Jeffrey, Who? A Plane Ride with Donald Trump From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.

In 1997, when he was profiling Donald Trump, Mark Singer took a flight with the businessman and Ghislaine Maxwell. In our daily newsletter, Singer recalls a phone call the two made to a friend named Jeffrey. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/gBMA_A

All-time? The Searchers.

"Donald Trump’s claims that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi directly contradict a CIA report concluding the crown prince approved it. This deliberate whitewashing of the past — alongside an attempt to blame the victim — marks a new low for an administration that shows at every turn how little regard it has for truth or the free press. Trump's remark that 'things happen' and that 'a lot of people didn’t like' Khashoggi echoes the president’s broader efforts to minimize and justify attacks on the press." — CPJ MENA Regional Director Sara Qudah

"Donald Trump’s claims that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi directly contradict a CIA report concluding the crown prince approved it." — CPJ MENA's Regional Director Sara Qudah

who has the conch?

There's a terrific biergarten on the east side of town, the Zamdorfer. Also: walk the Englischer Garten, wander the Viktualienmarkt and check out the Rathaus-Glockenspiel in the MarienPlatz. Do the Hofbrauhaus, too. Have fun, brother.

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I learned so much from this!

Audie Murphy Was an Idol of the Silver Screen. That Came After He Was the Most-Decorated American Hero of World War II He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he accomplished in his too-short life

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it's emoluments all the way down

Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.

it's emoluments all the way down

I'm not coming all the way back from this

Romare Bearden, Young Students, 1964.

'Thrilled to be open': Smithsonian and other museums welcome visitors back The Smithsonians, National Gallery of Art and other sites that receive federal funding are announcing their reopening plans now that the government shutdown is over. Past closures have been costly.

The Smithsonians, National Gallery of Art and other sites that receive federal funding are announcing their reopening plans now that the government shutdown is over. Past closures have been costly.

Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love

They let her drive a convertible through Malibu as some kind of clueless Didion cosplay. Beyond parody. Good golly. Also, I resent that a scene is set at Mel's in Santa Monica where my son likes to drink milkshakes and eat a cheeseburger placed in a cardboard car.
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

Audie Murphy Was an Idol of the Silver Screen. That Came After He Was the Most-Decorated American Hero of World War II He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he accomplished in his too-short life

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William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs

I went up to Albany all of a rainy night and what mug do I find but William Kennedy, THE William Kennedy. Author of "Ironweed," "Roscoe," and so many other novels that endure. He's 97, he's still writing - and he'll drink you under the table. So here: Your "Great Read."

Thanks for this, my friend. I studied with Bill a lifetime ago. Love to you both.

Working Through the Tangle: Language, Archives, and Practice | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee langauage? JaMeeka D. Holloway explores on The Collation blog. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Note to people in the Philly-to-D.C. corridor: Don’t miss “American Sublime,” the wonderful Amy Sherald retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Endlessly screenshot-dunking on Twitter idiots is annoying your followers and keeping the idiots famous. Whenever you feel like doing it, you should take a minute, breathe, and then approvingly share something I've written instead

Baltimore Museum of Art - 1:10 PM

“As Soft as She Is”

Detail from “Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)”

Breonna Taylor

“Trans Forming Liberty”

“The Boy With No Past”