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Breitbart Without Bannon: Raheem Kassam, the London editor brought on by Steve Bannon in 2014, has left Breitbart. His departure marks a turning point for Bannon and the news network; Kassam, who is heavily involved in far-right organizations such as the anti-European Union and anti-immigration United Kingdom Independence Party, was one of the few allies Bannon had left at the company after departing in January. Kassam’s exit comes after reports that the website’s readership has dropped by half since last year.
On Tuesday evening, the novelist Philip Roth died at the age of 85. Though he retired from writing six Adam Kirsch he was “a dangerous writer, one to wrestle with and argue about, not to calmly praise” and Megan Garber that he now represents a “bygone model of literary celebrity.”
