The Baffler

• Yesterday, while commentators and critics were trading financial analysis of whether abruptly-ousted New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson’s salary of $525,000 a year was more or less than her predecessor’s salary, thousands of fast-food workers across the ...

• “The National Rifle Association (NRA) has launched a new web series designed to appeal to millennials,” reports Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Reason. “Called Noir, it features an interracial pair of flawless, ambiguously aged young folks mixing standard conservative talking ...

Is this Internet? / Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library • From Max Linsky comes a set of scanned pages from a handbook for a class about the Internet that his grandmother took in her retirement home in 1998. “How Big is the Internet? No one ...

Is there any hope for the lowly media intern? Is there any hope for the working stiffs whose wages are being driven down by an unending stream of upstarts who are ready and willing to work for free? Maybe. ProPublica, for one, is in the midst of a long-running investigation into ...

• Regarding this piece from Business Insider entitled “10 First-Class Airplane Seats That Are Nicer Than Your Apartment”: Hey, Business Insider? You don’t know us. You don’t know whether or not our apartments feature marble shower spas, sheepskin mattresses, and ...

Robes for sale! / Photo by Calvin Ballantine • It’s not just congressional seats that are increasingly up for sale; judicial elections have also been flooded with cash. Judicial primary spending in North Carolina has broken a record at $1.3 million. • ...

Ladies and gentlemen, insiders and outsiders, queers and conservatives, high-frequency traders and Heritage think-tankers, the Lucky, the Hungry, and David Brooks, let’s all take a look back at the past week on The Baffler online: Illustration by David Sandlin, from ...

Founding editor Thomas Frank’s essay from Issue 23, “Academy Fight Song,” exposed the lie being sold to our young people—that if you go to a “good college,” all of your dreams will come true. Those colleges don’t necessarily always have you and your best interests ...