



Between the holidays a small victory: the dissolving committee withdraws its subpoena, and he pronounces it dead. Then Friday six years of his numbers walk out the door — the tax returns he carried all the way to the highest court to keep — and his counterattack is a headline: release the Speaker Emerita's returns next, a precedent has been set. At midnight over the black sea the fireworks bloom, a happy new year is hurled at every enemy by name, and twenty twenty-three arrives. In Manhattan, a grand jury's calendar turns with it.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 394. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…