The Steady Judge Merchan and The Desperate Trump Defense. @JonathanAlter—the journalist, historian, and Washington Washington Monthly contributing editor—reports from the first day of Trump’s hush money trial.

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.Mark Chiusano profiled the NYC rat czar and didn't throw up once
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“If she doesn’t have a team, she’s got to have the weight of the mayor,” says onetime rat czar Joe Lhota about the new rat czar, who does not have a staff nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Check out Jonathan Alter's first dispatch from inside Trump's Manhattan courtroom: nytimes.com/live/2024/04/0…

For New York Magazine, I wrote about the Rat Czar Kathleen Corradi after her first year on the job

It’s also about Eric Adams’s fight against rodents, his merry band of czars, and whether that’s a tool that works or not nymag.com/intelligencer/…

at 9.5m pregnant, my wardrobe staples are huge striped button downs, old baseball caps, Hoka sneakers… I am dressing exactly like my father

Christiane Christiane Amanpour spoke with Charlotte Alter on TIME's Person of the Week podcast about Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, the impact of preventing journalists from entering Gaza, and why this particular moment in world affairs keeps her up at night.

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This week on #personoftheweek : The one and only Christiane Amanpour on why it's so hard to get the story on the ground in Gaza, how the conflicts of 2024 compare to earlier ones she's covered, and why the world is at such a tipping point right now
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I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative

i'm not kidding when i say this is my proudest moment of parenthood so far. not even 3 and she already knows a scam when she sees one.
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I grew up in the era of 'girls have to play soccer because confidence/math!' so i spent most of soccer sitting on the field, ignoring the ball, and waiting for it to be over.

I just learned that my toddler has been lying down inside the goal during soccer class.

it's genetic!

Grateful to work on this piece with the best editor in the biz!
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I'm just a fun-loving judge who loves messy drama. I'm not here to make friends.
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Just once I want to read a story about a pro-nonsense judge who loves nothing more than a big ol' helping of drama

This Charlotte Alter story was so good so it’s no surprise !!!! deadlineclub.org/2024-awards-fi…

The AZ Supreme Court decision allowing enforcement of a Civil-War era abortion ban practically ensures that AZ voters will be voting on abortion in November... in a must-win state for Trump

watch this video
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Wow, this is a terrible idea ('silent lunch'). Kids & teens already don't get enough time to socialize face-to-face, and now we're going to tell them they can't talk at lunch in school?

BREAKING: Secretary of State Blinken said in a press conference that the situation in Gaza is unacceptable and the attack on WCK workers should be the last one. 'If we don't see the changes we need to see (in Israeli policy), there will be a change in our policy', Blinken said

This week's #PersonoftheWeek is Gillian Anderson, who opened up about the Scully effect, playing Margaret Thatcher, and her new movie, Scoop:
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