This thought provoking article is making me rethink my recent assertion that the Epstein files scandal is distracting us from the "real issues".

>>There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction untethered to reality. But it’s actually about the policy issue I’ve probably spent more time writing on than any other in my career in journalism: the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America, and the impunity we afford the nation’s elites.<<

Do read the whole thing.

prospect.org/justice/2025-07-1…

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Jeffrey Epstein Is a Policy Issue

It’s about elite impunity, the defining issue in America for more than two decades.

^{David Dayen (The American Prospect)}