Lauren Kirchner

A decade ago, coastal voters and the political and media elite were banging their heads on their desks with bafflement, wondering why so many Americans were voting against their economic interests. Wasn’t the Democratic Party supposed to be the party for the little guy, and ...

Last week, the postproduction crew of the reality television show Survivor walked off the job and formed picket lines outside the production company’s Santa Barbara headquarters. The editors and producers had requested contract negotiations with Mark Burnett’s Island Post ...

Sunday night in Ferguson, Missouri, the second night of an imposed curfew, brought not calm, but more chaos. The world watched the scene unfold on several online livestreams and read rapidly-changing reports over Twitter. (Broadcast television news was largely useless.) At 10 ...

© Mark Dancey In our current issue, Thomas Frank examines the long, strange history of the Masons, the Rotarians, the Elks, the Lions, Shriners, and all the other fraternal orders that have gradually fallen out of fashion. “The Freemasons,” he writes in “Veiled Pensioners ...

  This week marks the third anniversary of the start of the “summer of disorder” in the UK. In August 2011 the world watched, baffled, as the Brits seemed to be burning all of their cities down to the ground. We watched as thousands of kids crashed through glass storefronts ...

This past weekend brought bright and starry reviews for Baffler contributing editor Rick Perlstein’s new book about the tumultuous 1970s, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, out now. Max Boot in the Wall Street Journal admires how ...

If, by chance, you were watching CNBC’s Fast Money Halftime Report on Monday afternoon, you may have caught an epic meltdown by Rick Santelli about Fed policy. Or, more likely, if you weren’t watching, you may have caught the rest of the Internet rolling its collective eyes ...

On Monday at noon, the employees of the Village Voice who belong to the union UAW Local 2110 staged a walkout and demonstration to protest the management’s new contract proposal. The new proposal would halve family leave time and increase health insurance premiums by $200 a ...