The Baffler

• Last year Procter & Gamble harnessed the magical power of deodorant in their “Mean Stinks!” bullying campaign, as documented by Baffler managing editor Lindsey Gilbert in issue 28. Now that ever-loving, ever–community focused corporation is taking ...

• Here’s Tom Frank in The Guardian, on the recent slurry of articles claiming that Bill Clinton’s draconian, racist 1994 crime bill didn’t cause mass incarceration: In her “Bad Behavior” column, Natasha Vargas-Cooper wrote about this year’s Supreme Court ...

• Is the new, small-batch milk trend Uber for dairy? As Time reports, “Maybe it was inevitable: The small-batch, locally-made foodie trend that’s swept through everything from beer to chocolate to poultry is now reaching a new frontier: the humble milk jug.” ...

• Today in the slow, painful death of irony: Silicon Valley CEOs have been promising to “fix the world”—or, really, save us peons from ourselves—for a while. But thanks in part to the rapid rise of billionaire real estate mogul and ...

• The AP Style Guide, never at the vanguard of gender justice, has officially done away with the term “mistress” for referring to a female party in an extramarital affair. Likewise, the armed forces are trying to bring their titles in line with recent DOD ...

• As news breaks that David Cameron has personally intervened on behalf of fellow plutocrats in their battle to protect their offshore accounts from new EU tax rules, it is becoming more and more clear that the UK’s austerity policies are hardly the inevitability ...

• Would you look at that! For only a few thousand dollars you can have lunch with the editor of that “senpai of seduction” and dubious etiquette peddler, Neil Strauss. It’s a rare opportunity to neg the man who could have saved us a lot of grief and tactfully ...

• “I started my own career criticizing this genre; every now and then I wake up in the middle of the night absolutely certain that—as conventional modes of earning a living as an author dry up—I shall end my days contributing to it,” ...