The Baffler

• Chelsea Manning mourns former Baffler contributing editor Aaron Swartz three years on from his death, and reviews a new book of Swartz’s essays. She writes: On January 28, John Summers, Baffler editor in chief, is in conversation with ...

• The FT recognizes the limits of attempting to humanize Charles Koch over lunch: “Koch would like us to get to know him. Or, more accurately, he has been persuaded that staying silent is counterproductive both politically and, increasingly, for his business.” ...

• Today in techies: Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to avenge its earlier, more flaccid rocket by landing one on a drone ship, and Martin Shkreli spoils a blind date’s appetite when he orders a $120 cup of tea. • A private art museum in San Francisco is being ...

• In the endless flood of thinkpieces on how Millennials are ruining the robust, cheery economy they inherited, some dubious news: the little bastards are increasing their retirement savings faster than any other age bracket. Though we might consider the source (a Fidelity ...

• Mark Zuckerberg is reading world-renowned war criminal Henry Kissinger’s latest book, World Order—and he thinks you should too! The naive Zuckerberg explains, “[It’s] about foreign relations and how we can build peaceful relationships ...

• We all know that Hillary is fun, and it is also lodged in our collective cortex that Obama is “cool”—even meta-cool. And so would you be, if you’d spent a year “running wild” with Bear Grylls, “talking sports” with Bill ...

• ‘Tis the season to be grateful, as Baffler contributing editor Barbara Ehrenreich notes in the New York Times: Falalala-laa-lalalala. • Reasons to feel jaded, part two: Ethan Couch, the “affluenza teen” we keep hearing about, was but a pale shadow of his ...

At the end of 2014, we announced that we would break from our institutional overlords and cast The Baffler’s fortunes into the wilds of independent publishing. So there, zeitgeist! Let 2015 mark the year we opened a publishing office in New York, as planned, to work in ...