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The Women Who Knew Too Much
Horror films might be the only genre that punishes black women credibly, or at least in a way that’s true to our lives. Modern comedies are often too slapstick to approach us accurately, whatever their intentions. Dramas tend to give us the Madonna-Whore treatment, or else ...

Afraid of the Dark
These are dark times for the republic, all right-thinking persons agree. Unfortunately, most right-thinking persons don’t know the half of it. We’re understandably fixated on the fact that a vindictive, mean-spirited yahoo has a finger on the nuclear trigger and veto power ...

How to Win a Drug War
Eight months after the fact, it was decided that February 5, 2016, would mark the fifteenth anniversary of Plan Colombia, the $10 billion counternarcotics assistance package. Two 737s worth of government ministers, generals, media executives, and illustrious hangers-on ...