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Mack DeGeurin

Mack DeGeurin is a freelance journalist and graduate of New York University, where he studied politics and journalism. Mack’s work expounding on the intersection of politics and technology has been featured in New York Magazine, Vice, and Business Insider. icon

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“The rich diversity at Harvard and other colleges and universities and the benefits that flow from that diversity,” argued Massachusetts Federal District Judge ...

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