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Dara Lind

Dara Lind

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Dara Lind

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    Vox Sentences: Elon Musk has a plan to get us the hell out of hereVox Sentences: Elon Musk has a plan to get us the hell out of here
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    A bad night for Donald Trump; Elon Musk’s plan for a Mars shuttle; don’t look now, but we’re a few days away from a government shutdown.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Politics
    Donald Trump lies. All the time.Donald Trump lies. All the time.
    Politics

    And a stunning number of people don’t seem to care.

    By Dara Lind
    How Hillary Clinton lured Donald Trump’s sexism out into the open
    Politics

    And celebrated with a shimmy.

    By Dara Lind
    Vox Sentences: No pressure, Lester Holt!
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    The first presidential debate; new stats on crime in 2015; an update in the UN secretary general race.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Politics
    The real reason debate moderators don’t want to fact-check Donald TrumpThe real reason debate moderators don’t want to fact-check Donald Trump
    Politics

    Blame tradition — and Abraham Lincoln.

    By Dara Lind
    Vox Sentences: Ted Cruz unhinges his jaw and swallows his pride
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    Son-of-a-JFK-assassin-accomplice Ted Cruz endorses pathological liar Donald Trump; the DOJ’s war on science; it looks like Russia really is trying to meddle in the US election.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: Neighborhood trouble in the world’s biggest nuclear hot spot
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    Tensions in Kashmir; this year’s MacArthur Genius Grant winners; how Clinton and Trump would govern.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: In which John Kerry throws the best shade of the UN Syria summit
    Syria

    Protests in Charlotte after an (un?)(armed?) black man is killed by police; the US and Russia make a UN Security Council meeting on Syria super awkward; Brangelina, and America.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Calling Donald Trump’s lies “lies” isn’t partisan. It’s the truth.
    Politics

    This column from the New York Times’s public editor is everything wrong with “objective journalism.”

    By Dara Lind
    Vox Sentences: A new frontier in sketchiness for the sketchtastic Trump Foundation
    2016 Presidential Election

    Turns out you can’t use your foundation to pay off lawsuits against your companies.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews