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Jess McAllen

Jess McAllen is a staff writer and fact checker at The Baffler. An award-winning journalist from New Zealand, she focuses on mental health issues.

Do No Harm

November 29, 2020
Two centuries’ worth of dispute about suicide prevention burst into the pop culture zeitgeist when 13 Reasons Why was aired by Netflix in March of 2017. The “passion project” of Disney protégé Selena Gomez, it is centered on thirteen tapes pre-recorded by moody beauty ...
a grid of stills from governor Andrew Cuomo's daily press briefings

Total Cuomo Show

April 30, 2020
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to run. Cara, his daughter, thinks she can beat him, but he’ll be out there, say, five miles a day: “fast like lightning.” Cuomo should start running—for president! That’s what certain pundits and livestream devotees are saying ...