American Freakshow
Nina Burleigh, Scott Carney, bekah day, Isabel Vincent, Katie ChenowethA weekly newsletter from veteran journalist Nina Burleigh keeping an eye on MAGA extremism and its absurdity.
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Kathy Ruemmler and 'Your Boy George'
Jeffrey Epstein, Kathy Ruemmler and Terje Rød Larsen Credit: Department of Justice
Today, regretful Epstein pal and former superlawyer Kathy Ruemmler appears before the House Oversight Committee as the Members look into the powerful networ...
What Happens in Russia...
President Trump likes to complain about the “Russia Russia Russia Hoax,” but there is no question that he has an unusual affinity for Mother Russia. Wall Street whales, like former Apollo Group CEO Leon Black, understand it. Epstein did too...
Steve Bannon, Populist False Prophet
No Epstein class supervillain has paid any meaningful public or legal price for his crimes, other than throwing around cash settlements in exchange for silence. Evading justice is, of course, one element of supervillainy.
But there are gra...
An American Tragedy
DC Metro, July 4, 2026. Photo Credit Cheney Orr/ Reuters
This morning, the entire world is absorbing disgusting images of the most embarrassing national birthday bash in American - and perhaps any national - history.
If you thought Donal...
The Epstein Lawyers Association
One of the unprecedented benefits of the Epstein Files Transparency Act is that the records expose how power actually works – especially among lawyers. A whale like Epstein, a locus of money and influence, attracted elite lawyers no matter...
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National political journalist, author of 7 nonfiction books including The Trump Women: Part of the Deal; and the novellas Zero Visibility Possible and Turn Around Don't Drown, the first two in a trilogy of dystopic satires.
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