The Baffler

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Medaling in Folly The year is 2021 and the 2020 Olympics are now officially, heedlessly, dismally underway in Tokyo, having kicked off on Friday with the “Parade of Nations” in a stadium that the city of Tokyo, currently under a state of emergency due to the ongoing ...

Bezos and His Daemen On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos, by dint of his billions, will zip-zoom up to the edge of outer space in his Blue Origin rocket, inaugurating a new era of conspicuous wealth-waste that will, in the words of Richard Branson—who beat Bezos to space by nine ...

The Forever Poké War With little fanfare, the United States withdrew the last of its remaining forces from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan—from which the military waged an unconscionably expensive war for nearly two decades—last week. But the digital traces of the occupation ...

Ketchup on the Good News As millions of Americans prepare to fire up their grills to celebrate our god awful, god-fearing nation’s forging in the fires of racist violence 245 years ago, the refined minds of Insider have a word of advice: “Just because you can cook outside ...

One of These Things is Not Like the Other Pop quiz: Anarchists, socialists, and neo-Nazis represent which terrorist ideological category? Tick tock, tick tock, time’s running out, dear reader. What tenuous thread could possibly link these three groups, which, at first glance, ...

The Supreme Court Says YAASS, Honey, to Homophobia   It’s been a banner week for the nation’s highest court. On Thursday, three opinions issued forth from that marble sarcophagus of justice that, among other things, upheld corporate America’s god-given right to never be ...

Goodbye to All That For far too long, millennials, when not busy eviscerating the raisin and canned tuna industries, have been living like “bourgeois royalty” courtesy of benevolent investors who have, for years, subsidized the immiseration of millions of workers (millennial ...