RSN: Masha Gessen | How Michelle Wolf Blasted Open the Fictions of Journalism in the Age of Trump



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Michelle Wolf's routine was only as obscene as the presidency itself. (photo: Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Gessen writes: "On Saturday, the comedian Michelle Wolf, performing at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, delivered the most consequential monologue so far of the Donald Trump era."
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