Amber A’Lee Frost

Readers, it’s been a momentous few weeks for our nation’s governing bodies, and in light of the political turmoil the country now faces, today I’ll be addressing your questions regarding the death of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Many of you ...

Welcome to The Baffler’s agony corner, YOUR SORRY ASS, where Amber A’Lee Frost dispenses bossy, judgmental advice on how to live your life fairly, kindly, and with good humor. Send us your rants and pleas, please: [email protected]. Our world is riddled ...

The Democratic primaries have prompted an intellectually invigorating turn in online feminist discourse. No, seriously, I mean it. It’s been weeks since I scrolled past a Beyoncé thinkpiece on Twitter, and I can’t remember the last time I saw a demand for ...

A few months ago, the media class became fixated on a vulgar little portmanteau. Talking heads of every political orientation served up their piping hot takes on what Dave Weigel at the Washington Post christened “the conservative insult of the month”: cuckservative. Just as ...

On not attending the Left Forum  A few weeks back in Manhattan, hundreds of socialists, communists, anarchists, and even few decent “small-d” democrats shuffled into the unlikely venue of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (ironically, best known as a ...