Sublime

The last one, a bony-looking man with dark hair and a broken nose, looked vaguely familiar. Five days later, the same photo would flash on news screens across the country. The man was Ibragim Todashev, and an FBI agent had shot him dead.

According to the papers, he had unwittingly committed the cardinal sin of being pale, male and stale. None of the above seemed likely to change in the immediate future.

the defendants could in this light be seen as victims of “a political trial”, of a “legal lynching”, of a case “rigged from the very beginning” by the decision of “the white press”

valedictory

of outlandish facts and quotes—he is a tenacious reporter—and a style that barely suppresses his own amusement. It works particularly well on the buccaneers who continue to try the patience of the citizenry, as proved by his profile in The New Yorker of the developer Donald Trump. Noting that Trump “had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury,

(In the face of overwhelming documentary evidence and testimony, the Justice Department would later acknowledge the so-called gunwalking campaign and would admit to having given false information to Congress. The story would become the investigative reporting story of the year, receiving an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow Award.) The Justice