the profile of Billy Joel (but maybe you don't care for his music?).
He's OK. True story: my uncle, who was probably in his 50s or early 60s at the time, but was pretty culturally aware and liked music and played the piano beautifully (though mostly classical) was once listing what he thought were the most important figures in rock 'n' roll history. "Elvis, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Billy Joel ..." he said.
I had to hide my amusement. My uncle really liked Billy Joel.
The article on the President and court appointments is important if duty-ish.
That doesn't sound like it would pass the duty threshold for me. I know court appointments are important, but I just can't get very into them.
If you can access those articles on line (I probably could but I've never bothered to learn how)--then perhaps you should read them on line and go for an extra issue on the end of your subscription, if you are given that option.
Excellent point. Many of the articles aren't even behind paywalls, and though of course as subscribers we all theoretically have access to all of the
New Yorker content on their website. But I absolutely hate using it for that -- I like their blogs and online columns, but not the magazine content, because it's really cumbersome to read. You have to read it in a PDF version on their site, meaning you have to open to the page, then scroll up and down the individual columns as you read because you can't enlarge it enough to read, while keeping it on a whole page of your computer (at least I can't on mine).
Long story short, I'll probably google the Ebola article and if it's not available as free content (in which case it's presented in an easy-to-use html format, all one column) I'll probably skip it.