The Baffler

• Baffler contributing editor Astra Taylor reports on “the troubling intersection between higher education and high finance” over at The Nation. And it’s not just Harvard she’s talking about: in the wake of state funding cuts, more and more public ...

• Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders threw pollsters and pundits for a loop last night in Michigan by winning the state’s Democratic primary when everyone and their mother (literally, this author’s mother) thought it was impossible—or at the very ...

• Say “hullo” to our thirtieth issue, a breezy look at the collective panic afflicting the nation in election year! As John Summers writes, “Sober pundits intone, how do we balance liberty and security, freedom and security? We? Balance?  The ...

 • Today in ostriches, their heads buried in the sand: “The future is clearly coming much faster than science had expected,” writes Bill McKibben in the Boston Globe. Well, that’s a bit uncharitable, Bill. He’s concentrated on his short fingers and on ...

 • In case you felt let down after price-gouging pharma bro Martin Shkreli escaped a congressional hearing after rolling his eyes and invoking his Fifth Amendment right to avoid answering even a single substantive question, fear not. As Jaya Saxena reports, some witches have ...

• “Just imagine this scenario: It is the first day of class and I, the professor, walk into the classroom, throw my bag on the table; the bag sags open, showing the glimmer of a concealed, holstered gun,” writes Keffrelyn Brown in Pacific Standard. It’s a ...

• Today in Super Tuesday hangovers: Donald Trump wins big, bringing him to a total of 315 delegates, giving him a 110 delegate lead over Ted Cruz and a 200-something lead over Marco Rubio. While we encourage you to start crafting a plan for where and how you’ll flee the ...

• Remember when Mark Zuckerberg decided to slaughter his own food? And when he embraced thank you notes? No, we had carelessly forgotten, too. Those were the days when we all still thought he was dull and robotic, not “the aspirational ...