It’s rare that Washington is seized by a truly blockbuster sex scandal, but the exceptionally public breakup of journalists Oliva Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza—spurred by Nuzzi’s alleged “digital affair” with former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—has burned, to borrow a metaphor, like a wildfire. So far, its charred acreage encompasses multiple job losses, various legal actions, copious ink spilled across broadsheets and tabloids and group texts, at least one strained marriage, and a surprising cameo from former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, whose career blew up 15 years ago when he was caught having an extramarital affair while he was supposed to be hiking the Appalachian Trail.

All of this is just getting started. Nuzzi’s memoir about the ordeal, American Canto, is set for

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