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Dylan Matthews

Dylan Matthews

Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer

    Latest articles by Dylan Matthews

    Vox Sentences: President Obama steps in to block the Dakota Access Pipeline
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    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: In which nobody, really, knows what is Aleppo
    Syria

    Gary Johnson doesn’t know what Aleppo is; Matt Lauer doesn’t know how to moderate.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: One of the US’s biggest for-profit colleges is dead. Thanks, Obama.
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    In DC, an investigation shuts down a for-profit college. In Florida, a “college” (well, “university”) investigation was shut down ... for profit?

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: The US left 80 million unexploded bombs in Laos. Now it’s helping clean them up.
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    President Obama apologizes for the “secret war” in Laos; the Filipino president has some respect issues; more news at Fox News.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    Vox Sentences: The FBI hits publish on its Hillary Clinton email investigation
    Politics

    The FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton is revealed in full.

    By Dylan Matthews, Dara Lind and 2 more
    Vox Sentences: Facebook’s big internet dreams explode. Literally.
    archives

    Caracas breaks out in protest; Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket explodes; preferential college admissions for slave descendants.

    By Dara Lind, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    Vox Sentences: America isn’t sending Mexico its best people
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    By Dara Lind, Dylan Matthews and 1 more
    Vox Sentences: ISIS loses its chief propagandist
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    The EU orders Apple to pay Ireland $14.5 billion (that Ireland doesn’t want); ISIS just keeps losing; America’s worst governor embarrasses himself again.

    By Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews
    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