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ILLUSTRATION: TOM BACHTELL
COMMENT: Exhillaration, by Hendrik Hertzberg
The Presidential flight of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which had already been aloft for nearly a year, began its descent stage on January 3rd, 2008, somewhere over Iowa. Five months later to the day, she piloted it to a smooth touchdown, though not without experiencing some turbulence during the final approach…
HERTZBERG: BLOG

DEPT. OF SUCCESSION

Powers Struggle

by Ben Ryder Howe
A father-son face-off in Staten Island.

POSTSCRIPT

Tim Russert

by David Remnick
A passion for politics.

ART DEPT.

Water, Water

by Calvin Tomkins
Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls.

ON THE PODIUM

The Way They Move

by Lizzie Widdicombe
What happened to Hillary’s body language?
ILLUSTRATION: TOM BACHTELL
SECOND ACTS: Citizen Mayhill, by Ben McGrath
Mayhill Fowler, at present the most famous “citizen journalist” on earth, recently spent a full week at home, in Oakland, after leaving Milbank, South Dakota, with her second major scoop of the campaign season: a three-minute audio clip of Bill Clinton coming unhinged on a rope line and referring to the Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum as “slimy,” and “a scumbag”…
 
06 16, 2008
John Cassidy, Ryan Lizza, and Dorothy Wickenden talk about the economic positions of Barack Obama and John McCain.
BLOGS
Goings On: Salmonella via marijuana, Hitchcock stimulates the brain, and more.
The Book Bench: Free books on the subway, violent boarding-school witches, and more.
Hendrik Hertzberg argues against an R.F.K. Bridge.
George Packer wonders what kind of respect Hillary wants.
Michael Crawford may be offensive to Canadians.
Sasha Frere-Jones advocates censorship.
Dana Goodyear visits the artist June Wayne at home.
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THE NAKED CAMPAIGN
Video: Steve Brodner on candidate duplicity.
IN THIS ISSUE
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AWARDS
The New Yorker has won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
VIDEO
Not a Game: Scenarios from Virtual Iraq, a virtual-reality simulation adapted from the video game Full Spectrum Warrior, with commentary by Sue Halpern.
Trapped: The ordeal of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours.
Abandoned in Baghdad: Scenes from George Packer’s play “Betrayed.”
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
The Naked Campaign: Steve Brodner draws the Presidential candidates.
AUDIO
Mouthing Off: Peter J. Boyer talks about Keith Olbermann’s unorthodox style.
Perfect Pitch: Sasha Frere-Jones demonstrates how Auto-Tune transforms the human voice.
Sign Language: Mary Gaitskill discusses Vladimir Nabokov and his story “Symbols and Signs,” in this month’s fiction podcast.
In the Bird’s Nest: Paul Goldberger talks about Beijing’s standout buildings.
The Campaign Trail: The candidates’ economic positions.
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Spots by Laurent Cilluffo
SLIDE SHOWS
Chavistas: Photographs of Hugo Chávez and his supporters.
Weird Science: Images from Buckminster Fuller’s world.
Great Walls: Photographs of Beijing’s National Stadium and National Aquatics Center.
Your Eustace: The winners of the 2008 Eustace Tilley Contest.

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