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The Great American Eclipse of 2017

In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, there was a magnificent event—and then it was all over.

By Edward Steed

September 4, 2017

Edward Steed has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 2013.

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The Total Solar Eclipse Comes to “Eclipseville,” Kentucky

I stared through my glasses at the last sliver of the sun, a neon-yellow comma, a pause before the big show. Then totality began.

By Carolyn Kormann

Annals of Technology

The Total Solar Eclipse We Deserve

Think of Monday’s event as a celestially imposed national moment of silence, a two-minute-long reprieve for reflection and grace.

By Alan Burdick

Dept. of Superlatives

The New Yorkers Tied for the Total-Solar-Eclipse Record

Reflections from the men who have seen thirty-three apiece.

By Jason Kersten

Our Local Correspondents

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