The Baffler

Regulate This! On Wednesday afternoon, in ruling on Jarkesy v. SEC, a few supple-minded creatives in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, fatigued by the cumbersome constraints of common law precedent, effectively declared the modern administrative state null and void. ...

Accountants Hate Me Because of This One Simple Trick! The cost of living isn’t just going up in the United States—an estimated 1.5 million households in the UK will struggle to pay their food and energy bills over the next year and a further 2.2 million individuals may ...

Back to the Future On Monday evening, a draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade leaked to the press, leading perennially aggrieved conservatives to celebrate the imminent, altogether assured success of a decades-long campaign to strip women of ...

The Sum of All Fears Brain-addled swimmers of the content stream have no doubt heard by now that Apartheid Clyde née Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, has struck a deal to acquire Twitter for roughly $44 billion. Assuming that this is not an elaborate prank designed ...

Strangest Thing Earlier this week, Netflix revealed that, for the first time in a decade, they had failed to attract enough new subscribers to offset those so disenchanted by the rich programming on offer, such as Life After Death with Tyler Henry and Is It Cake?, that ...

A Shot in the Dark The vaunted, cash-bloated ranks of the New York Police Department, sworn to protect and serve and etc., sauntered onto the national stage this week when they allowed an out-of-shape, neon-clad boomer to escape after shooting ten people on a subway car. ...

Daddy Starbucks Howard Schultz, back for a third tour as the chief executive of Starbucks, this time to save the nation’s preeminent purveyor of sugared jet fuel from its employees—or “partners,” as the company misleadingly calls them—appeared at a corporate town ...

Semiotics of the Slap Last Sunday evening, Hollywood’s Best and Brightest—swaddled in Versace, dripping in diamonds—gathered once more in the Dolby Theatre to memorialize the bloated, festering corpse of cinema. In hopes of livening up the solemnities, Oscar statuettes ...