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Aug 2022
40m 17s

Caitlin Dickerson on family separation

THE ATLANTIC
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The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg talks with staff writer Caitlin Dickerson about her recent piece, "An American Catastrophe," a comprehensive investigation of the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families.

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