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Mattathias Schwartz

Mattathias Schwartz is a freelance writer living in Washington, D.C.

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2 picks · 2011–2014

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The Anchor
letter from lampedusa ·

The Africans who risk all to reach Europe look to an exiled priest as their savior.

A Massacre in Jamaica
a reporter at large ·

After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.