He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in the two buildings accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars in health-care bills.

NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

After eleven years, nearly two thousand Americans killed, sixteen thousand Americans wounded, nearly four hundred billion dollars spent, and more than twelve thousand Afghan civilians dead since 2007, the war in Afghanistan has come to this: the United States is leaving, mission not accomplished.

NEWYORKER: After America

The City University of New York (my old employer) has two hundred and twenty-eight thousand undergraduates more than four times as many as the entire Ivy League.

NEWYORKER: Live and Learn