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Anna Merlan
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Anna Merlan was a Senior Reporter at G/O Media until September 2019. She's the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.

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Sugar is the motivator and the typing fuel. The ultimate reward is wine, sipped through a straw with my cheek pressed against the soothing wood of a bar somewhere far from my computer, c’mon Read more

A final draft is nothing! A final draft is a leisurely stroll. The first draft is when you need a bucket of candy and something to cry into. Read more

I wouldn’t embarrass my country with anything less, unless the lesser gummis were free and easily available Read more

To be perfectly honest with you, we’ve been having to alternate, because there are so goddamned many debates we don’t always have a critical mass of people free in the evenings to do this. Debates: won’t let us live. Read more

Wow right on my bark is strong as shit

Congratulations on doggedly pursuing the point, and very nearly getting it within your grasp Read more

I found an old registry from when I think their commitment ceremony must’ve been in 2014 but I haven’t seen an updated one. Will link if I see that they’ve created one! Read more

Don’t really appreciate you flirting so hard with my future husband Ellie Read more

I didn’t really take a vacation — more of a bizarre work trip that I hope you’ll hear more about next week — but now that you mention it I wonder if there’s wine in the kitchen... Read more

Immediately, a fun and upbeat email from Hillary’s camp.

I could not BE more excited about this, especially the part where the internet in the press pen is apparently shit and you two have to type on your phones. This is going great! Read more