The Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “can project the daunting stillness of a seated monarch,” Jeffrey Toobin writes in his Profile of Ginsburg this week. “She is tiny—about five feet tall and a hundred pounds—and her face at rest conveys a pursed-lipped skepticism. She dresses with a dowager’s elegance, often in exotic shifts acquired on her travels around the world; she sometimes wears long gloves indoors.” A groundbreaking litigator for women’s rights before being appointed to the bench, Ginsburg has worn many aspects in her eighty years. Here are photographs of Ginsburg as a girl in Brooklyn, as a law graduate who left Columbia as co-valedictorian (but with no job offers), as a young mother, and as an advocate whose greatest legacy, Toobin argues, may be in the cases that she argued before what was then an all-male Supreme Court—and won. Click-through for a slideshow: http://nyr.kr/W0Hkz5

This week in the magazine, Jeffrey Toobin writes a Profile of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who even before her time on the Supreme Court played an important role in shaping the legal framework for women’s rights and gender discrimination. Here Toobin and Margaret Talbot talk with Amy Davidson about Ginsburg’s legacy and some of the current issues the Court is addressing. Also, fiction from a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.  Click-through to listen now: http://nyr.kr/15sjBe5

 ”If you read The New Yorker’s business archive chronologically, you can watch the world of industry change in fundamental ways..” From KFC’s Colonel to a Lego design studio, here’s a look back at business writing in our archive: http://nyr.kr/XQCdOz

  Photograph by Martin Schoeller.

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After twenty years as The New Yorker’s chief theatre critic, John Lahr will give up regular reviewing to focus on the Profiles he also contributes to the magazine, as well as on book projects.

Click-through for more on Lahr at The New Yorker, and for links to some of Lahr’s favorite pieces that he has written for the magazine.

Photograph by Jill Krementz.

Supreme Deciders

Today is the second day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health-care-reform law. Over at Daily Comment, Jeffrey Toobin writes about how all this might end:

Where do the justices stand now? The four Democratic appointees—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—seem like sure votes to uphold the law. Clarence Thomas is a sure vote to invalidate the law. Anthony Kennedy is the Democrats’ best bet to join with them, although Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, and Samuel Alito do not seem out of the question as possibilities.

But who are these Justices? Visit newyorker.com for a slide show of the Justices and to read The New Yorker’s Supreme Court Profiles and other coverage—and then make your own guess about which way they might vote.

When she was being considered for the New York Times editor position, Jill Abramson “was candid” with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. “about her weaknesses,” Ken Auletta writes, in this week’s issue. “I said I needed to work on listening more and talking less, and not interrupting,” Abramson tells Auletta. Read the whole profile here.