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Dara Lind

Dara Lind

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Dara Lind

    Politics
    Criminal-justice reform in Congress has officially caved to a dangerous mythCriminal-justice reform in Congress has officially caved to a dangerous myth
    Politics

    You simply can’t fix mass incarceration this way.

    By Dara Lind
    Explainers
    The disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today’s immigration problemThe disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today’s immigration problem
    Explainers

    The immigration reform Hillary Clinton wants could be limited — or even undermined — by a law her husband signed.

    By Dara Lind
    archives
    Vox Sentences: Picking a VP after losing is the most Reaganesque thing Ted Cruz has ever doneVox Sentences: Picking a VP after losing is the most Reaganesque thing Ted Cruz has ever done
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    Ted Cruz’s campaign officially crosses over into a parallel universe; Dennis Hastert sentenced to 15 months in prison not-officially-for child molestation; we may know all we’ll ever know about those disappeared Mexican students.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Politics
    Democrats’ best hope in Pennsylvania isn’t their Senate candidate. It’s Donald Trump.Democrats’ best hope in Pennsylvania isn’t their Senate candidate. It’s Donald Trump.
    Politics

    Can revulsion to Trump sink an incumbent Republican senator and boost the little-known choice of the Democratic establishment?

    By Dara Lind
    archives
    Vox Sentences: The primaries to watch tonight (hint: not the presidential ones)Vox Sentences: The primaries to watch tonight (hint: not the presidential ones)
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    Super Tuesday? More like Sestak Tuesday; is peace finally coming to South Sudan?; Saudi Arabia’s audacious (or just absurd) plan to get off oil.

    By Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind
    Politics
    Joe Sestak could be one of the Democrats’ best Senate picks. They’re trying to stop him.Joe Sestak could be one of the Democrats’ best Senate picks. They’re trying to stop him.
    Politics

    The question facing Pennsylvania’s Senate primary: is Sestak an unreliable candidate, or just a pain in the neck?

    By Dara Lind
    archives
    Vox Sentences: Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicksVox Sentences: Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicks
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    Ted Cruz and John Kasich will do anything (read: nothing) to stop Trump; Syria’s truce is wobbly at best; a steady (reading) diet of Lemonade.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Politics
    Bernie Sanders just accidentally explained why his political revolution has failedBernie Sanders just accidentally explained why his political revolution has failed
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    Politics

    Poor people don’t vote. Sanders’s campaign was supposed to change that.

    By Dara Lind
    archives
    Vox Sentences: Uber pays $100 million to keep its drivers from becoming employeesVox Sentences: Uber pays $100 million to keep its drivers from becoming employees
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    Virginia will reenfranchise 200,000 people with felonies; Uber settles suits brought by drivers; three CIA torture victims are finally getting the chance to sue two of the program’s architects.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Culture
    9 Shakespeare innuendoes you should have been embarrassed to read in English class9 Shakespeare innuendoes you should have been embarrassed to read in English class
    Culture

    Reading Shakespeare without the sex jokes is the real tragedy.

    By Dara Lind