WASHINGTON (July 17, 2025) – The House Speaker announced early this week he supports the release of files about Jeffrey Epstein. Along with the Speaker, many others in the Republican Party are calling for the release of the files in an effort to provide complete transparency.
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Todd Belt is a professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. His research and writing focuses on the mass media, public opinion, the presidency, campaigns and elections.
Matt Dallek is a professor at the George Washington University School of Political Management. Professor Dallek is a political historian whose intellectual interests include the intersection of social crises and political transformation, the evolution of the modern conservative movement, and liberalism and its critics. Professor Dallek’s most recent book, Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right, was published by the Hachette Book Group in March 2023. It tells the story of the most influential far-right grassroots movement of the 1960s, exploring how an extremist organization spread conspiracy theories in American culture and used these theories to mobilize activists to get active in the struggle for power.
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