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Sarah Chayes

Sarah Chayes is the founder of the Arghand, a cooperative agribusiness in Afghanistan. Formerly an overseas correspondent for National Public Radio, she is author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban.

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Class & Inequality, Politics

Days of Lies and Roses

The other day I drove out to visit Nurallah, a member of my cooperative who had just lost his

Sarah Chayes

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