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Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet is a professor of English at Dartmouth College and the bestselling author of seven books, including "This Brilliant Darkness," "C Street" and "The Family."

A display of "Trump 2020" flags adorn the entrance to a cattle ranch on the outskirts of town on November 2, 2020, in Solvang, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Elegy for a lost America: Will the Jan. 6 committee really change anything?

Jeff Sharlet

Ditto boys: An elite Christian education

Jeff Sharlet

U.S. Reps. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and Joseph Pitts, R-Pa.

The Democrats’ new “Family” values

Jeff Sharlet

133 C Street S.E., a red-brick structure registered as a church and affiliated with a secretive Christian group known by many names, one of them the Fellowship Foundation, is seen Wednesday, July 1, 2009, in Washington. Tucked on the edge of the Capitol complex, the house has functioned as a shield for the lawmakers who live and pray there. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford blew away the privacy of the place over the past week, revealing that he had confided in his "C Street" "Christian friends" the cross-continental affair that he had hidden from his wife.

Sex and power inside “the C Street House”

Jeff Sharlet

Toeing the line

Jeff Sharlet