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About Virginia Heffernan

Journalist at WIRED — & also New York Times, LA Times, Politico, The Economist, The Atlantic, WaPo, Foreign Policy, &c. Podcasts: Trumpcast and This Is Critical. Book: MAGIC AND LOSS. PhD fwiw.

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