The Baffler

• While the beginning of the school year has been postponed in Ferguson, Missouri because of ongoing protests there, classes are cancelled today and until further notice in Millville, Pennsylvania because all the teachers have gone on strike. According to WNEP-16, the ...

• 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 ...