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Jeffrey Epstein
November 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Horrific Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein Revealed in New Audio
A damning, newly released recording exposes just how close Donald Trump was to Jeffrey Epstein.
September 3, 2024
Paige Oamek
Watch: Trump Calls Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein a “Good Salesman”
This was a wild statement, even for Donald Trump.
August 19, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
J.D. Vance Dragged After Jeffrey Epstein Mention—Forgetting Trump Ties
Donald Trump’s running mate just put his foot in his mouth.
July 17, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Steve Bannon Is Keeping Hours of Footage of Jeffrey Epstein Secret
A new report reveals that Steve Bannon is sitting on tons of video footage of Jeffrey Epstein.
March 8, 2024
PodcastThe Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
RFK Jr.’s Creepy Claim About Jeffrey Epstein Hints at a Darker Story
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bizarre viral moment helps explain his appeal to disaffected young people in the “manosphere”—and what that says about our current political mess.
March 7, 2024
Tori Otten
RFK Jr. Couldn’t Have Given Worse Jeffrey Epstein Answer if He Tried
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a truly unhinged reply on this one.
January 4, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Twitter Is Helping Push the Most Dangerous Epstein Conspiracy Theory Yet
Conspiracy theorists are tying the Jeffrey Epstein documents to a school shooting.
January 4, 2024
Tori Otten
The Far Right Has a Bonkers New Conspiracy Theory on Epstein and Jimmy Kimmel
Why the hell is the far right suddenly obsessed with Jimmy Kimmel?
January 4, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s How Trump Is Responding to Being Named in Epstein Documents
It’s finally out.
January 3, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Conservatives Are Having a Meltdown Over Trump and the Epstein List
Donald Trump’s biggest supporters are freaking out over the anticipated unveiling.
December 6, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
RFK Jr. Admitted What About His Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was forced to clarify his travels on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet.
June 23, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Will We Ever Know What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows?
A Peacock docuseries raises important questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime associate, but the answers remain a maddening mystery.
June 4, 2021
MagazineAlex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Bill Gates
Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.
May 20, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Bill Gates and Matt Gaetz Reveal the Shallow, Dangerous Truth About the American War on Sex Trafficking
There’s no great conspiracy at play in the crises unfolding around the philanthropist and the congressman—just the banal myopias of power.
January 26, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Leon Black and the American Tradition of Impunity
The private equity billionaire, pressured into retirement this week, gave $158 million to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Why doesn’t it matter more?
July 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Law Was Never Meant for Ghislaine Maxwell
Sex trafficking prosecution has been framed as a universal pursuit people can unite around, but that’s a fantasy.
June 17, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Pals Off the Hook
A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.
September 18, 2019
David Klion
Covering for Roy Cohn
The new documentary about his life and circle is a study in complicity.
August 22, 2019
Evgeny Morozov
Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler
How did Epstein meet so many luminaries in the worlds of science and technology? It all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman.
August 15, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Is Cy Vance the Next Invincible New York Democrat to Lose?
The Manhattan District Attorney has had a long run, but his role in recent high-profile cases may bring unexpected change to a very powerful place.

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