Gluesenkamp Perez's college past included drug events, fetish parties

In the arc of American political life, few tensions are more enduring than the distance between who a person was and who they claim to have become. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democrat who captured a rural Washington district in 2022 by presenting herself as a pragmatic, working-class problem-solver, now finds her college years at Reed College — marked by countercultural organizing, financial improvisation, and the permissive atmosphere of a famously unconventional campus — surfacing as she fights to hold her seat against a formidable Republican challenger. The episode raises t