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Justin Peters
Correspondent, Slate
**Justin Peters** is a correspondent for \_Slate\_ and a contributing editor at the \_Columbia Journalism Review\_. He has written for various national publications, including \_The New York Times, The Washington Monthly\_, and \_Travel + Leisure,\_ and was the founding editor of \_Polite\_, a general-interest print journal. An alumnus of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he divides his time between Boston and Brooklyn. (Photo Credit: Molly Peters)
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