Abdallah Fayyad
Policy correspondent
Abdallah Fayyad is a correspondent at Vox, where he covers a range of issues related to race and class, including housing, criminal justice, and democracy. He is the lead author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America.
He previously worked at the Boston Globe, where he served on the editorial board, and The Atlantic. In 2020, he reported on the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C., for DCist, WAMU, and the Globe. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and other networks to discuss his work and the news, and occasionally guest hosted a nightly news program on GBH, Boston’s PBS member station. In 2022, he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series he wrote on reforming the American presidency.
You can follow him on Twitter @abdallah_fayyad.
Latest articles by Abdallah Fayyad
America’s fragmented safety net makes it easy for cuts to go unnoticed.
The new presidential commission sounds like a joke. It isn’t.
From start to finish, Palestinians became a target, and candidates were only interested in maintaining the status quo.
Successful minimum wage ballot measures offer small signs of hope.
Investors in private prisons think they’ve hit the jackpot with a second Trump presidency.
The backlash to criminal justice reform continues.
Pro-Palestinian voters are facing a moral dilemma.
Millions of Americans who are eligible for welfare programs still don’t receive all the benefits they are entitled to.
Politicians need to get realistic about what it will take to protect Social Security.
Tuesday night’s Vance-Walz matchup was more civil and substantive than the Trump-Harris one — with enough for both sides to claim victory.
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