Not a yooge difference As a Bronx native I’ve spent the campaign quietly weighing Donald Trump’s New York accent against that of Bernie Sanders. I can declare a split decision. Trump has the better vowels: His yooge obliterates Sanders’s yooge, the perfect measure of dismissiveness without dwelling on itself. But Sanders has the better consonants: […]
Ben Wallace-Wells
Ben Wallace-Wells is a staff writer at the New Yorker and was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 2003 to 2006.