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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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September 19, 2013
Blog: Close Read
The Pope Francis Interview: “A New Balance” for the Church
Published Thursday by sixteen Jesuit journals, the entire interview with the Pope is worth reading. With any luck, it will come to inform the political involvement of Catholics in the United States and in any number of other countries.
September 19, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Can the FISC Fix the N.S.A.?
Judge Claire Eagan, of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, released an opinion that reflected a number of oddities about the N.S.A.
September 16, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Questions About the Washington Navy Yard Shooting
[Updated] Just before 8:30 on Monday morning, people in the cafeteria of Building 197, at the Washington Navy Yard, started hearing the sound of gunfire. In a short time, thirteen people were dead, the...
September 16, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Syria and the Obama Style
Obama was about a day away from a fantastically ill-considered act of war; he turned to Congress, according to press reports, against the advice of senior members of his foreign policy team.
Sep 23, 2013
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Harder Answers
A frequent complaint about President Obama’s Syria policy is that he keeps making matters more complicated. Obama’s worst moments have come when he ignores complexity, not when he embraces it. By belatedly turning to Congress and, now, to diplomacy, he has given the process more time and increased the number of possible outcomes. In a situation in which there are no good choices, that’s not a bad thing.
September 11, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Goodbye to Weiner and Spitzer? Maybe Not
Are we done with Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, after their primary defeats, or with comebacks from scandals? Probably neither is the case.
September 10, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Six Interviews Later, a Way Out for Obama on Syria?
It might be tempting for some to dismiss the Kerry-Russia equation as too cute, but it would make it harder for Assad to use chemical weapons.
September 6, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Can Obama Win by Losing in Congress?
What would it cost Barack Obama if Congress votes against taking military action in Syria?
September 4, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Ariel Castro’s Death by Hanging
On Tuesday night, locked in a prison cell in Ohio, Ariel Castro died by hanging. He had kept three women captive in his home in Cleveland for more than a decade, had beaten and...
September 3, 2013
Blog: Close Read
Kerry and the Senators: Unanswered Questions
If Tuesday’s testimony was a piece of theatre, it was one clearly still in workshop, with only the roughest notion of how the last act would end.
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