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Amy Davidson is a senior editor at The New Yorker. She has been at the magazine since 1995, writes the Close Read blog for its website, and has contributed to its pages. Davidson grew up in New York City and graduated from Harvard. Before joining The New Yorker she lived and worked in Germany.

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August 21, 2013
Blog: Close Read

Manning’s Sentence, Miranda’s Detention

Bradley Manning has been sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. Military prosecutors had asked for sixty years, out of a possible ninety; his lawyer, David Coombs, had asked for “a sentence that allows him...
August 18, 2013
Blog: Close Read

Michael Grunwald and the Assange Precedent Problem

Michael Grunwald's now-deleted tweet—“I can’t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange”—encapsulated something hazardous about the current moment.
August 16, 2013
Blog: Close Read

Breaking the Rules Thousands of Times at the N.S.A.

Documents from Edward Snowden reveal an N.S.A. audit that found two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six “incidents” in 2012 in which the N.S.A. broke its own rules about spying on Americans.
August 15, 2013
Blog: Close Read

Egypt’s Aftermath: Obama, Caught in the Fire

President Obama speaks on Martha’s Vineyard. Photograph by Rick Friedman-Pool/Getty. Inside Raba’a al-Adawiya mosque. Photograph by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty. Inside al-Iman mosque in Nasr City. Photograph by Ed Giles/Getty. Outside Raba’a al-Adawiya mosque. Photograph by...
August 14, 2013
Blog: Close Read

The White House Watches Egypt

“The world is watching what is happening in Cairo,” the White House said in a statement midday on Wednesday. It is, indeed, hard to turn away from the scenes of killing in the city’s...
August 13, 2013
Blog: Close Read

Obama’s Clapper Mistake

The choice of Clapper to “to establish” that very review group came in for some instant mockery. Obama’s directives for the group don’t match the moment, either.
August 9, 2013
Blog: Close Read

The N.S.A.’s Dirty Dishes: Obama’s Press Conference

According to the President, who spoke at a press conference on Friday, all Snowden did was rush him; he was already going to look and see if “some bolts needed to be tightened up” on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs.
August 8, 2013
Blog: Close Read

The N.S.A. and Its Targets: Lavabit Shuts Down

Not every suspension-of-service notice for an e-mail company comes with a link to a legal-defense fund.
August 7, 2013
Blog: Close Read

Erick Erickson’s Abortion Barbie Game

Who, or what, is Abortion Barbie? That is the name that Erick Erickson, of redstate.com, wants to attach to Wendy Davis, the Texas State Senator who filibustered a bill that restricted abortion rights in her state.
August 6, 2013
Blog: Close Read

“I Am the Shooter”: The Fort Hood Court-Martial

“The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,” Major Nidal Hasan said as his court-martial opened in Texas today.
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