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Paul Wood

Politics

Trump's People

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

Paul Wood Harper's May 2016 30min Permalink

A Battle in Baghlan

Embedded with an Afghan warlord:

This is a local insurgency, often with local causes: a corrupt district governor, predatory police, or abuses by the local militias, the arbakis.

Paul Wood Foreign Policy Apr 2011 10min Permalink