The Baffler

• Today in the innovation economy: Rebecca Solnit writes in The Guardian about the execution of Alex Nieto and how “disruptive” the tech economy has been for “communities, traditions, and relationships.” She continues, “Many of the ...

• Over at Buzzfeed, Baffler contributor Niela Orr has written, beautifully, about the myth of cultural mobility, in the context of her intimate, degrading experience working for Instacart (“Uber for groceries”): “Instacart times their ...

• Jill Stein wants Bernie Sanders to know she’s totally open to the possibility of “collaborating” with him on an anti-Clinton ticket. The perennial Green Party candidate has said as much to the Sanders campaign several times with no response, leaving her ...

• While mourning the death of so-called constitutional “originalist” Antonin Scalia, the GOP has, as promised, completely ignored the Second Article, refusing their “advice and consent” to new Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Mitch McConnell ...

• They live in New York City. They’re underemployed. One of them is a huge Phish fan. Given that (and Bernie Sanders’s roaring popularity with millennials—even female ones), isn’t it just a little surprising that Ilana and Abbi from Comedy Central’s “Broad ...

• American Rifleman, the NRA magazine that has a history of advertising products described as “survivalist snake oil,” is running sponsored content that ghoulishly targets the victims of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan: Read Jacob Silverman’s grim ...

• As British chancellor George Osborne indicates—yet again!—that he is making cuts to benefits for the disabled, we roll out contributing editor David Graeber’s salvo from issue 30. In “Despair Fatigue” David sees an end to the ...

• ICYMI: “Let us now address the greatest American mystery at the moment: what motivates the supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump?” So begins founding editor Thomas Frank’s latest for The Guardian. Though white, working class ...