Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“Almost nobody noticed earlier this month when the New York Daily News announced what felt like a 500th round of layoffs. Not long ago, the venerable working-class tabloid behind ‘FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD’ would have been the ideal outlet for demystifying the prodigious evils of the Uptown Epstein network for outer-borough New Yorkers who elected Zohran Mamdani. But the latest iteration of ‘New York’s Hometown Newspaper’ has all of four reporters covering national news. The ‘adults in the room’ always say a conspiracy theory becomes less plausible for every individual and institution it implicates. But the Epstein network is so vast and so varied it would suggest that the conspiracy is the system, if we had any institutions capable of making sense of it.” (02/26/26)