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• The New Yorker is an American literary and current events magazine. It reports on national and international events, publishes essays and offers media critiques. The periodical debuted on February 17, 1925, and is published 47 times a year.

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  1. Headquarters: New York, New York
  2. Founded February 17, 1925The New Yorker: The New Yorker Timeline
  3. Publisher: Advance Publications
  4. Editor: David Remnick
  5. Circulation: 1,062,018Conde Naste Publications: Circulation and Demographics (April 2008)
  6. Published 47 times a year
  7. ISSN 0028-792X

• Obama Cover

  The July 2008 cover of the magazine (entitled "The Politics of Fear") featured a drawing of Barack Obama dressed in a turban giving a fist bump to his wife, Michelle. She sports a machine gun and wears combat fatigues.

  Both presumptive presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama went on the record calling the picture "tasteless and offensive."Associated Press: Magazine's 'Satirical' Cover Stirs Controversy (July 14, 2008)

  The New Yorker editor David Remnick responded by noting that his controversial cover was a piece of satire. Remnick stated, "satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to the absurd."New York Times: New Yorker Mag's 'Satire'... (July 14, 2008)

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