Emily Yoffe

The Atlantic

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Emily Yoffe is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and a contributing writer for Slate.com.

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Late last month, Rolling Stone magazine published a 9000-word  story alleging a gang rape  at the University of Virginia's Phi Kappa Psi house.

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