Wow: Warren Now Says She Self-Identified as Native American to...Make Friends

Wow: Warren Now Says She Self-Identified as Native American to...Make Friends

A surreal update to my item from yesterday, which posed two questions about the curious case of Elizabeth Warren, alleged "Native American."  The first: If Warren never, ever, ever would have exploited her possible heritage for career advancement, why did Warren classify herself as a Native American in 1986?  The second: Why did she remove that label nine years later -- after she'd achieved tenure at Harvard?  Yesterday evening, the candidate answered both curiosities.  I swear I am not making this up:
 

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might...