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Katie Herzog
Katie Herzog is a staff writer at The Stranger, where she covers and comments on media, politics, pop culture, social movements, weed, climate change, free speech, French bulldogs, gender, sex, emotional support animals, airlines, Amazon, Donald Trump, Twitter mobs, internet hoaxes, wildfires, orcas, bike shares, Alex Jones, lesbians, the cost of living, conspiracy theories, moral panics, natural disasters, cults, the left, the right, the middle, podcasts, Jordan Peterson, Fox News, and, occasionally, Seattle.
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How Elizabeth Gilbert Survived the Death of a Woman She Loved
<img src="https://media1.fdncms.com/portmerc/imager/u/original/26529492/1558643613-ouijaboard_mag.jpg" alt="“I can’t live without her,” the author of Eat, Pray, Love says. “So I don’t.”” title=”“I can’t live without her,” the author of Eat, Pray, Love says. “So I don’t.””> “I can’t live without her,” the author of Eat, Pray, Love says. “So I don’t.” RACHELLE ABELLAR The day before we talked on […]
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Department of Energy Redefines Nuclear Waste to Make It Easier to Dispose of
JEFF T. GREEN/GETTY IMAGES If you’ve got a problem with radioactive waste, you could clean it up, a costly and onerous process, or you could just change the definition of it. Guess which one the Trump administration has decided to do? This week, the Department of Energy announced that it is revising the classification of […]
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Old Fat Lesbians Bring Joy—and Weed—to Instagram
420oldfatlesbians have been on Instagram for less than two weeks but their account is already blowing up.
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Jeff Bezos Says Tabloid Tried to Blackmail Him Over Dick Pics
This whole story, as Bezos would put it, is complexifying my brain. Stay tuned for updates.
Posted inMedia
Media Layoffs Are Due to Bad Business, Not Bad Journalism
1,000 people losing their jobs isn’t going to make reporting any better, no matter how much Dave Rubin or Donald Trump gloat.
Posted inPolitics
Elizabeth Warren Made One Mistake and Will Never Be President Because of It
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Elizabeth Warren would have made an excellent president. Warren, who announced her intention to run for the presidency this week, spent much of her career before entering politics in law, which she taught at universities around the country, including UT-Austin, Harvard, and Penn. Particularly expert in bankruptcy, middle-class personal finance, and consumer protection, […]
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Michael Cohen Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Disgraced lawyer and Trump patsy Michael Cohen Drew Angerer/Getty Michael Cohen is going to prison. The disgraced lawyer was sentenced Wednesday to 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to a whole bevy of crimes related to Donald Trump, including financial crimes, lying to Congress, and campaign finance violations for paying off porn star Stormy […]
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NPR’s Fresh Air Fires Film Critic Over a Facebook Joke
David Edelstein has left the building.
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Climate Change Experts Predict Dire Future for Northwest
Climate change won’t wait for us to be ready. We’re already seeing it.
Posted inPolitics
Why Not Vote? Anarchists and Libertarians Weigh In
Conscientious non-voters have many reasons for not voting. Don’t listen to them.