Is Anthony Weiner ready to go another round?
Today’s must-read: The ex-congressman whose name became a punch line is running for New York’s city council. In some ways, he hasn’t changed a bit.
 

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Almost 14 years after he accidentally posted the first lewd photo to his Twitter account, Anthony Weiner is running for city council in New York City, writes Josh Tyrangiel. “Is his candidacy a test of America’s capacity to forgive?”

(Peter Fisher for The Atlantic)

 

The last time we saw him, we saw all of him.

Our subject is Anthony Weiner, whose surname was a burden long before it became a curse—so fused with his disgrace that you can’t say it without triggering an avalanche of cringe. Weiner, who was caught texting pictures of his penis, first denied it, then admitted it, then resigned from Congress, then ran for mayor of New York City, at which point he sexted again under the alias Carlos Danger, was caught again, lost the election, sexted a photo with his young son in the background, sexted a minor, and forfeited a laptop with emails from his estranged wife that caused the FBI to reopen its Hillary Clinton email investigation, greasing the way for Donald Trump’s 2016 victory and hastening the possible end of the republic and democracy as we know it.

But for Weiner, even that wasn’t enough.

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