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Abdallah Fayyad
Policy correspondent
Abdallah Fayyad is a correspondent at Vox, where he covers a range of issues related to race and class, including housing, criminal justice, and democracy. He previously worked at the Boston Globe, where he served on the editorial board, and The Atlantic. In 2020, he reported on the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C., for DCist, WAMU, and the Globe.
He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks to discuss his work and the news, and occasionally guest hosted a nightly news program on GBH, Boston’s PBS member station. In 2022, he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series he wrote on reforming the American presidency.
You can follow him on Twitter @abdallah_fayyad.
Latest articles by Abdallah Fayyad
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The US shouldn’t give up on congestion pricing.
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