The Baffler

• Dust off your monocle and top hat, New York City’s Metropolitan Opera and two of its unions (representing its orchestra and chorus) have finally come to a deal. • Today in Advice from Billionaires: If you want to make it rich, see where this billionaire ...

• New York Times reporter James Risen, who is likely facing prison for refusing to give up an anonymous source for a story and book about the CIA, calls President Obama “the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation.” • Oh, also, in case ...

  • It’s the fifteenth anniversary of ABC gameshow Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? • Today in Fearmongering: Ahead of Florida’s November vote on medical marijuana, an anti-legalization group, “No on 2,” tweeted this: “Will the new face of ...

• This is what a bunch of tech hype looks like, all graphed up by Gartner. Entrepreneurs, if you seek to reach the “post-nexus stage” with your digital business, go hard on these technologies: “Smart Workspace; Connected Home; 3D Bioprinting Systems; ...

• Today in Pure Coincidences, courtesy Mother Jones: a) A lot of bottled water comes from drought-parched California. b) In California, groundwater’s a property right; extraction is unregulated. (At least for now; stay tuned.) • The living Latin ...

  • The NCAA can no longer prohibit compensation for student-athletes, a federal judge ruled Friday. While you wait out the appeals process, see e.g. Matt Hinton’s “Billionaire Ball,” circa Baffler no. 20, 2012. “It’s become steadily harder to use ...

  • Over at the Nation, Kate Bahn, Joelle Gamble, Zillah Eisenstein, and Heather Boushey talk Pikettymania and gender. Baffler contributor Kathleen Geier moderates. • 2.3 million people still subscribe to AOL’s dial-up service. • Today in Things ...

  • This, on the heels of the NLRB’s ruling: McDonald’s restaurants in South Florida are speeding up the production line. They’re handing out timers to drive-thru customers, and offering coupons if food isn’t ready in sixty seconds or less. • ...