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Dina Kraft

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Dina Kraft, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, is a veteran foreign correspondent. She currently writes for Haaretz and The Christian Science Monitor, covering Israeli and Palestinian society, and hosts the podcast "The Branch." A former AP correspondent based in Jerusalem and Johannesburg, she has also been a regular contributor to The New York Times, JTA, and The Daily Telegraph.

“Why’s this so good?” No. 88: Katherine Boo and the marriage cure

Katharine Boo begins her 2003 New Yorker piece “The Marriage Cure” with one of my all-time favorite opening lines:One July morning last year in Oklahoma City, in a public-housing project…