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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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I don't know whether the Rolling Stone article is true or not, but I have learned that you, Anna Merlan, are an insufferable douchebag. Read more

Watching people not understand how the Constitution and legal precedents work fills with me so much glee.

And the cop who killed Eric Garner got off too. This is a good day to be a rapist or murderer. Read more

I don't want to say much, but one of my immediate family members was sexually assaulted several years ago by a high-ranking Democrat staffer (not this guy) during a campaign event. Both of them were fired. Party higher-ups made it clear if charges were pressed, they would go nowhere. So this, while sad, is no surprise. Read more

Ad-supported games suck, yes, but 8 years old is hardly too young to learn about birth control. My daughter was 6 when she told me she wanted to take the little pills I take, because she didn't want a baby yet. I laughed and told her that her body wasn't able to have a baby yet* and that when it was, she could Read more

I bet I know exactly what happened there: the ad was in the queue for approval on Wednesday at 3 pm when some poor junior marketing specialist wanted to get out early for Thanksgiving. We had an "Approve All" button in a queue like that at my first job, and every manager would look the other way if we abused it on our Read more

My 6 year old son is obsessed with this game. I don't really understand it because I practice a form of parenting known as benign neglect (or lazy, if you're feeling judgey) so I can't confess an intimate knowledge of a lot of the crap I agree to put on their "glowing screen" other than a quick litmus test of which Read more

This thing I got for free isn't exactly as I want it to be! I'm outraged! Read more

Commenters have called me white so many times now that they've actually turned me into a white person. Read more

Howard Stern has evolved into quite the interviewer. He's able to elicit a lot of really personal stuff in a fairly non-invasive manner. Quite the change over the last 30 years. Read more

I've interviewed over a dozen people who check out people who pay with food stamps and all felt people on food stamps ate better Read more

Oh, good. I guess I got this confused with the (literally hundreds of) story of the DA who declined to prosecute based on "lack of evidence" (I know the existence of a video tape of a rape doesn't prove rape occurred!). Read more

So pregnancy isn't a disability, yet we're required to apply for short term disability insurance in order to get paid during maternity leave? This really makes sense, America. Read more