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Why I Left the Washington Post

The New Yorker · Ruth Marcus · last updated
I was fresh out of college and on my way to law school. Along the way, I’d worked at a small legal newspaper, where I found myself both interested in the subject and annoyed at being condescended to by lawyers about my lack of a degree.

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