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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Previously, as a reporter at The Washington Post, she investigated the people and organizations attempting to sow doubt in American elections and institutions and wrote about the human toll of political division. Before that, she spent two decades at The Arizona Republic.
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