A trio of scandals
Government
Unanswered questions are eroding trust in American democracy “Who will guard the guardians?” That question, posed two millennia ago by the Roman poet, Juvenal, is just as relevant today. It recurs every time we learn of a new political scandal – or suspect one is being hidden from us. There are three such scandals today, and the public has very little confidence in the guardians who will probe them: • Jeffrey Epstein’s “list” of sexual predators, which we are now told doesn’t exist; • John
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