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Dara Lind

Dara Lind

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Dara Lind

    Vox Sentences: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s aerial surveillance of the entire city of Baltimore!
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    Baltimore’s police secretly surveilled the entire city.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: The day the alt-right went mainstream
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    Colombia signs the peace deal that ends its 52-year civil war; the alt-right, explained; Donald Trump’s latest immigration wriggling, inexplicable.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    What the hell is going on with Trump and immigration, explained
    Politics

    He was supposed to spend the week hammering his strongest issue. Instead, he’s spent the week hinting he might flip-flop on it.

    By Dara Lind
    Politics
    Donald Trump’s black outreach isn’t for black voters. It’s for wavering white Republicans.Donald Trump’s black outreach isn’t for black voters. It’s for wavering white Republicans.
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    Wavering Republicans are still looking for a reason to vote Trump.

    By Dara Lind
    Vox Sentences: We may have found a Plan(et) B
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    The most important planetary discovery of our lifetimes (probably); a surprisingly deadly earthquake in Italy; the American university in Kabul, under attack.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: How did an EpiPen get to costing $600?
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    The federal government rules that grad students at private universities are allowed to form unions; another drug pricing scandal; Nigeria (might have) (again) killed the head of Boko Haram.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: A suicide attack at a wedding in Turkey further scrambles Syria’s war
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    A horrifying attack in Turkey and its aftermath; the Clinton Foundation plans to wind down (if Hillary is elected); Virginia gives the right to vote back to 13,000 people.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Donald Trump and immigration, explained
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    Donald Trump led a revolution on immigration within the GOP. He can’t stop it now.

    By Dara Lind and Matthew Yglesias
    Vox Sentences: A quarter of Puerto Ricans will probably get Zika in 2016
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    New Zika warnings; how the relief effort in Louisiana (the one not involving photo ops) is going; South Sudan is recruiting child soldiers, which is never a good sign.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: The federal government will (eventually) close (a handful of) private prisons
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    The Department of Justice will wind down its contracts with 13 private prisons; the era of self-driving cars will begin later this month in Pittsburgh; RIP, Gawker.com.

    By Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind