Real-life Huma Abedin is pretty much Scandal’s fictional D.C. political fixer Olivia Pope. Both women know their way around a crisis.
Clare Malone
Clare Malone is a freelance writer and member of the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in The American Prospect, The Daily Beast, Slate, Bloomberg View, and Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology. She is a former Prospect web editor.
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