The recent breaches of security at the White House have shone a harsh spotlight on the Secret Service (and its competence). The President’s security detail is almost as iconic as the White House itself, and, over the years, has served up inspiration for New Yorker cartoonists. Some of the drawings are timeless; others—like a February, 1963, cartoon by Alan Dunn, imagining the equestrian element in Jacqueline Kennedy’s detail—have a topicality that can, in retrospect, be poignant. Here is a selection.
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Donald Trump Is Being Ritually Humiliated in Court
At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.
By Eric Lach
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Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.
By Adam Iscoe