The Baffler

  • Here’s an epic road trip: visit the richest person in every U.S. state, with this handy map, courtesy Movoto, in tow. Score three for the Waltons: they’ve got Arkansas, Texas, and Wyoming.  • Today in stating the self-evident: “What someone is paid ...

• With pretty much all our congresspeople headed to the Hamptons this week, it’s a perfect time to claw back some leisure from the work-leisure conglomerate. Make like the congressional leaders of Southern California, who “vacation like the rest of us”—with ...

Alrighty folks, it’s time to call this thing. Last month, after Eric Cantor’s (to many) surprising upset in the Virginia primary race, we asked you all what you thought he would do next after leaving office. We got a pretty impressive array of responses, and we ...

• We hereby endorse the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s “Stupid Patent of the Month,” the inaugural edition of which features a patent on the abstract idea of a patient communicating with his or her doctor through the intermediary of a telephone or ...

• Today in Bespoke, just because: “‘Majestic Spirit,’ A bespoke collection of fine art Equine Photography.” • A new startup called Wevorce has raised 1.7 million “to make divorce fun,” reports The Verge. Christopher Mims calls it ...

• The latest #innovation in designer jeans is for them to be mauled and shredded by lions, tigers, and bears before sale; Judith Thurman at The New Yorker connects this to the “sartorial slumming” that has been going on since before Count Tolstoy dressed like the ...

• America’s elite schools and universities don’t need to worry about being “disrupted” by technology, according to Moody analysts (via Matt Phillips for Quartz). “The most vulnerable to the threat of online education are less selective schools ...

• Today in Billionaires: Vincent Mehdizadeh, the inventor of a marijuana vending machine, has become legal weed’s first billionaire; read Adweek‘s interview with Mehdizadeh, in which he insists on referring to pot as “the medicine.” • Today in ...