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White supremacy, doing journalism, and the explanatory comma

By Sherwin Arnott March 7, 2021October 4, 2022

This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory comma, or perhaps an interrogatory comma, because Demby and Marisol Meraji take time to really discuss and think about their own discomfort with this practice.

Meghan Jezewski: Hitchhikings

By Meghan Jezewski June 20, 2017April 17, 2021

In which Meghan and Sherwin reflect on the old days, hitchhiking, and being young and lucky (and privileged) …

Cop show Blue Bloods makes me cringe

By Sherwin Arnott January 5, 2015July 28, 2019

Blue Bloods is a story of a cop family, the Reagans, in New York. And it’s a reasonably well written family drama that suffers from deeply racist, and sexist, narratives…

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