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You Are Drowning

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Kevin Hilke

Christopher Hitchens is dead.

Jerk Pork

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Eric Freeman

Several members of the NYPD are under investigation for racist Facebook messages pertaining to working the city’s West Indian American Day Parade in over Labor Day. Great job, guys!

Does Your Memory Stray?

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Eric Freeman

Glenn Kenny on Edward Yang’s amazing, just-now-getting-a-proper-release 1991 epic A Brighter Summer Day and the critical compulsion to stump for the underseen.

The One Who Knocks

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Eric Freeman

Like something out of Breaking Bad, a math professor in Boston has been arrested for running a meth lab with her son. Hopefully she doesn’t also own a car wash.

Dissatisfaction

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Kevin Hilke

With OWS wearily dwindling and the American administration unable to so much as slow the immolation of the middle class, Malcolm Harris and Ezra Klein offer assessments of the waning power of social democracy and the illusory promise of change a second time around.

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