The Baffler

A weem-a-way? /Appaloosa • At a New York Times-hosted conference on Friday about the state of the press in a post-Snowden era, Sen. Charles Schumer told the audience that a federal shield law would “very likely” pass the Senate this year. The version proposed last year ...

Hi folks. In case you missed them, and are looking for some salvos to soothe your addled mind and soul this weekend, here are some things we’ve published this week, in the great Baffler Web Experiment of Early 2014. (Also, if you’d like, you can get an update just like this ...

Is this luxe enough for ya? / E. Dronkert • Amelia Greenhall has a wonderful, sharp piece about the job title “Data Scientist”—a lot of companies seem to want one, without necessarily knowing what it is. Which makes sense, because the title seems to ...

Private jets. Not illegal./Andy Rusch • In prison on drug charges, Jesse Krimes spent three years making a thirty-nine-panel mural, made from transferring newspaper photographs onto bed sheets using hair gel. Each transfer took thirty minutes, and there are thousands of ...

• Do “tiny houses,” en masse, make a slum? Occupy Madison wants to build a “cooperative eco village” of tiny, affordable, fourteen-by-seven foot homes on trailers. One Madison resident objects to the project, but “not because of who might be living there, but ...

Why, hello there! Behind the scenes of the website, we’re currently shining our spectacles and waxing our mustaches in preparation for a re-launch of the site in just a month or two. We promise that the new online Baffler will be shiny, and colorful, but not startlingly so. In ...

You may have either personally experienced or noticed in the news this week that the Atlanta metropolitan region was completely destroyed by a couple of inches of snow. You had your laughs—yes, you did. Then you saw that kids were stranded in schools and people were stranded ...

“If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I’ll jump out the window.” —Buster Keaton as Calvero’s partner in Charlie Chaplin’s 1952 film, Limelight. Today marks 118 years since the Great Stone Face, actor/director Buster ...