The Baffler

• Today in billionaires: Do you have FOMO for the Koch brothers’ Colorado Springs secret summer consortium for conservative millionaires? Us, too. Take comfort, at least, from the fact you can brush up on the reading list. Among the set ...

• This week, we got to hear Bill Clinton wax poetic about his long romance with the Democratic nominee, straining eyebrows across the nation. A few months back, In These Times gave another account of that fateful first date. And don’t forget to catch up on all our ...

• Over at New York Review of Books, Masha Gessen weighs in on the hysteria surrounding Russia’s possible (plausible?) role in hacking the Democratic National Committee. She writes:  Meanwhile, Trump has used this as an opportunity to troll pundits. ...

• As the DNC kicks off in Philadelphia, Talia Lavin investigates the 2016 presidential race’s, uh, racier underbelly, the fan-fiction sites where you’re “likely to read about a romantic connection between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz—a pairing popular ...

• Despite Ben Carson’s best efforts to convince the Republican National Convention participants that Hillary Clinton is Lucifer, we know that if there’s one spiritual force involved in the 2016 presidential election it’s actually Loki, the Norse ...

• The list of people who blame themselves for fueling Trump’s sense of self-pity, which no doubt will be on ample display in Cleveland, is ever growing. A Buzzfeed reporter, whose critical article he fears goaded Trump into running, offers a follow-up mea culpa: “Trump ...

• Over at Reason TV, Baffler editor Chris Lehmann talks The Money Cult with Nick Gillespie. On whether the prosperity gospel’s popularity is waining or not, Lehmann says: “This whole word of faith tradition is regarded with great ...

• Over at Medium, Michelle Alexander writes: As Natasha Vargas-Cooper commented earlier this year on the Baffler blog: • In response to a Pokémon Go user “claiming” the Westboro Baptist Church using a Pokémon called Clefairy ...