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Joshua Partlow
Joshua Partlow is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2026, he spent two decades as a reporter with The Washington Post, including a dozen years as a foreign correspondent covering Latin America and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster. For the past several years he has written about environmental issues in the American West.
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