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Molly Jong-Fast

Contributing Editor

Molly Jong-Fast is a contributing editor for The Daily Beast, and the author of three books.

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AMERICA’S MAYOR

I Must Be ‘Really Stupid’ Because Rudy Is F*cked

He’s lost his license to practice law in New York and D.C., the FBI raided him, his friend’s on trial, he’s racking up huge bills, and even Fox News doesn’t want him around.

Molly Jong-Fast

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THE GREAT PRETENDER

Tucker’s Fighting for ‘Freedom’ Everywhere Except Fox News

It turns out that he’s not so interested in fighting the power when the power is paying him.

Molly Jong-Fast

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GTFO

These Hack Justices Are Gunning for Roe, and Lying About It

“They think you’re for this or for that. They think you become like a politician,” said Clarence Thomas. We do!

Molly Jong-Fast

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‘CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY’

What Gabby Petito’s Case Says About Cops—and Us

While domestic abuse is freqeuently ignored, the disappearance and possible murder of an attractive young white woman often gains outsized attention.

Molly Jong-Fast

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‘ASKING FOR TROUBLE’

Clarence Thomas and His Friends Are Coming for Your Uterus

Amy Coney Barrett is singing from the same hymn sheet as they get ready to dismantle what’s left of Roe. Don’t be fooled.

Molly Jong-Fast

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REAL-LIFE HUNGER GAMES

Greg Abbott Takes the Lead in the GOP’s Race to the Bottom

It’s the abortion bill, but also the voting law and gun law and the no-mask mandate and the 1836 Project and “patriotic education,” and on, and on, and on.

Molly Jong-Fast

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DARK DAYS AHEAD

Texas Just Outlawed Abortion as We Knew It

Conservatives are hell-bent on reasserting control over women’s bodies—and a fresh hell starts today with what women in the Lone Star State are waking up to.

Molly Jong-Fast

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DOG BITES MEN (AND WOMEN)

A Bad Last Day for New York’s Dog of a Governor—and His Dog

It’s some sort of metaphor, as the dog Cuomo reportedly couldn’t give away kept biting staffers and Troopers, and the outgoing governor kept laughing at the people who got bit.

Molly Jong-Fast

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TROLLS PLAYING CHICKEN

GOP Safe Space: Letting People Die to Fight Dem Overreach

Dontcha know, COVID cases in Texas are up 125 percent over the last two weeks. In Florida, they’re up 162 percent.

Molly Jong-Fast

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SIMPLY THE WORST

Another Terrible Week for Terrible Human Tucker Carlson

Does the frozen-fish heir and chickenhawk deserve everything he gets, and then some? I report, you decide.

Molly Jong-Fast

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