The Baffler

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 ...

Bridge to NowhereIn the early hours of Friday morning, a major bridge crossing through Pittsburgh’s Frick Park, which connects the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill with downtown, collapsed under a blanket of heavy snow, bringing with it several cars and a bus, injuring ...

The White House says: “Fuck it, have a margarita.”

The best dispatches from our grim new reality.

How to get rich or die trying in the the ascendant NFT fart jar economy.

The Baffler looks back in anger at 2021.

OOO Early next year, Republicans will take control of the state legislature in Virginia. Democrats, biding their time during these final few moments in power, have expressed concern that—what with the Supreme Court all but certain to curtail or outright overturn Roe v. Wade at ...

Extremely Expensive and Totally Pointless As new Covid-19 cases perilously ticked up this week amid fears of the Omicron variant, the Biden administration touted its new initiative allowing privately insured Americans to—after filling out the necessary paperwork, of ...