Every once in a while, as you work your dreary way through the Washington Post, a strange thing happens: You notice something! It can be refreshing but also, just as often, puzzling.

Consider the recent news that four former paramours of New York’s then-attorney general Eric Schneiderman say he beat them up. The news first appeared in the New Yorker but the Post put its own inimitable gloss on it.

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