Lauren Kirchner

Numbers don’t lie, and these numbers aren’t nice. “Corporate profits are at their highest level in at least 85 years,” reports the New York Times recently. “Employee compensation is at the lowest level in 65 years.” While corporations earned a ...

Baffler contributing editor Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book comes out today: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth About Everything. In this very personal book, she revisits a series of “mystical experience” from her childhood and ...

Over the weekend, Nirvana fans and friends remembered Kurt Cobain on the twentieth anniversary of his death. They wrote remembrances in the local press. They visited a park near where he died, to leave flowers, notes, and beers. Thoughtful think pieces were penned, and the New ...

The National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday that college football players had the right to unionize. The ruling states that, even though the players receive scholarships, they should be considered employees of the school they play (and work) for. The decision came in ...

Today King Digital Entertainment Plc, the video game company that makes the addictive game Candy Crush, and not much else, goes public. (The symbol is KING, for all you stock-watchers.) “At the top of the price range, King would be valued at $7.6 billion, or about 2.9 ...

On the occasion of last night’s season finale of HBO’s Girls, we’re publishing online for the first time Heather Havrilesky’s essay “Sit-Cons: Class on TV,” from Issue 20 of The Baffler. In it, she examines how the subject of class is treated (and should be treated) ...

In its recurring “Room for Debate” feature, the New York Times opinion pages recently invited several columnists to opine on the forty-hour work week. For instance, is it a “quaint” construction, considering the flexibility that advances in technology now ...

Happy Fed Day, Bafflers! This afternoon, the Federal Open Market Committee will announce its policy statement and projections, in Janet Yellen’s first meeting as Federal Reserve chair. Exciting stuff! (The Business Insider even has an ominous-looking countdown clock on its ...