The Baffler

Riders on the Storm Text messages between conservative activist Virginia Thomas and Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, obtained through Congress’s investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot, reveal that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence ...

James Bond: The Origin Story: The Movie: The Series On Thursday afternoon, Amazon closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, less than twenty-four hours after Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill that would—were it to go absolutely anywhere in a Democrat-controlled ...

It’s a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World!Last Wednesday, the U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield took to the floor of the United Nations to emphatically condemn Russia’s use of cluster munitions in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, arguing that they, among other vicious weapons, ...

Fantastic Beasts As Russia’s war against Ukraine barrels heedlessly, disastrously onward, the international community has come together to make one point exceedingly clear: if Russia’s going to fuck with the selectively applied “rules-based order,” we will respond in ...

Better, Faster, Stronger, Richer Well, it’s finally happened: Russian president Vladimir Putin, a keen observer of the West’s expeditious decline, has gone and pulped the post-Cold War consensus by invading Ukraine, a sovereign nation that, in Putin’s telling, ...

Get the Band Back Together For weeks now, we, the doomscrolling public, have been trapped in the tenacious drum circle of Western media, which, having grown bored of the plenitude of other crises besieging our species, seem hellbent on summoning the hallucinatory fog of war ...

Motherfucking Crocodile of Wall Street! Earlier this week, in a perfect illustration of the shady dealings, probable personality disorders, and desperate #grindset influencers propping up the cryptocurrency boom, Manhattan couple Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were ...

The Good, The Bad, and The Cuddly Over the years, ABC’s Dancing with the Stars has proven itself a dependable laundromat for the sullied images of cretins like Rick Perry, Tucker Carlson, Geraldo Rivera, and, perhaps most famously, former White House press secretary Sean ...