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  July All-Access Special: For a limited time, you can lock in 40% off your subscription—just $6/month—to ensure you never miss a premium article or member-only podcast episode again. Get unfiltered, deep-dive political analysis from the sharpest strategists in the game when you upgrade now for just 16 cents per day! RFK Jr.'s Summer Sh*t Show Americans want straight answers about the cyclosporiasis outbreak, but the nation’s top health official is too busy talking about orange juice and TikTok. Jennifer Schulze Jul 28 ∙ Guest post Jennifer Schulze is a longtime Chicago journalist. She’s on Bluesky @newsjennifer.bsky.social . Subscribe to her Substack, Indistinct Chatter Going to the grocery store these days is a nightmare. Almost everything costs more than it did the week before, and now you also have to worry about whether explosive diarrhea-causing parasites are infecting the fruit and vegetables for sale in the produce section. I went to three grocery stores near my home th...

PREVAIL REVIEW / Travesty Justice: How the FBI's Failure to Vet Brett Facilitated Kavanaugh's Confirmation A Senate report exposes the fatal flaws in the Bureau's supplemental investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Justice Kavanaugh—and six years of executive-branch stonewalling. Greg Olear Jul 28 The PREVAIL Review: Dog Days I am on vacation. Beginning on July 26, I will run pieces from the PREVAIL archives every day until resuming new material on August 7. During those 12 days, new subscribers will receive 15 percent off the purchase of an annual subscription . With a paid subscription, you can join the lovely PREVAIL community and participate in the conversation. Thanks, as always, for your support! And not to jinx it, but when I go on vacation, important things DO seem to happen… Note: This originally ran on October 15, 2024. Six full years after Brett Kavanaugh’s fractious confirmation hearing, and forty-three-and-a-half months after Stephanie Koff ...