{"id":80548,"date":"2026-10-27T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/the-epstein-files-are-a-sledgehammer-for-the-us-midterms-katie-phang\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:55:47","slug":"the-epstein-files-are-a-sledgehammer-for-the-us-midterms-katie-phang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/the-epstein-files-are-a-sledgehammer-for-the-us-midterms-katie-phang\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epstein files are a sledgehammer for the US midterms | Katie Phang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters have a chance to break America\u2019s two-tiered system of justice and hold powerful people accountable<\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America\u2019s political future. Last week, Guardian US columnist <strong>Rebecca Solnit<\/strong> wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2026\/oct\/19\/midterm-elections-tech-broligarchs\">the <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2026\/oct\/19\/midterm-elections-tech-broligarchs\">GOP\u2019s alignment with the tech overlords<\/a><em>. Today\u2019s edition was written by <strong>Katie Phang,<\/strong> an independent journalist, trial lawyer and political analyst. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2026\/oct\/05\/sign-up-for-how-we-win-a-weekly-opinion-newsletter\">Sign up for future editions here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Americans go to the polls a week from now, accountability will be front and center.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Instead of enforcing the law, the attorney general of the United States has been busy subverting it<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/oct\/26\/epstein-files-midterms-sledgehammer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters have a chance to break America\u2019s two-tiered system of justice and hold powerful people accountable Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America\u2019s political future. Last week, Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit wrote about the GOP\u2019s alignment with the tech overlords. Today\u2019s edition was &#8230; <a title=\"The Epstein files are a sledgehammer for the US midterms | Katie Phang\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/the-epstein-files-are-a-sledgehammer-for-the-us-midterms-katie-phang\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Epstein files are a sledgehammer for the US midterms | Katie Phang\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}