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Ross Douthat Columnist November 16, 2025 — 7.30pm

For those of us with a sincere, nonpartisan interest (I swear) in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, it’s been a good week: First the Democrats, with an eye to hammering Donald Trump , released a few redacted Epstein emails in which the president’s name featured prominently; then Republicans, presumably with an eye to burying the Democratic leak, released thousands more Epstein documents. With this kind of tag-team effort , we’ll have the whole story out in the open by Christmas!

A word of caution, though, for those liberals who are relative newcomers to the Epstein saga, for so long a mostly conservative fixation. There is a dark conspiratorial thrill that comes with encountering the reali

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