Will the MAGA movement eat its own over the Epstein affair? Donald Trump is highly fluent in crackpot theories, including this one. Years before he retook the presidency he suggested that Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide was murder. But now that Mr Trump has the power—at least in his followers’ eyes—to expose the cover-up by releasing those files, he is in a bind from which there is no escape. 

If that sordid saga is too much for you, think instead of the Caribbean. Bright sun, white beaches, rum punches—and Sargassum seaweed. The algae are a growing nuisance, and they happen to smell like rotten eggs. 

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