The Baffler

• She may have already been named the world’s most powerful woman—now, though, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is TIME’s Person of the Year for 2015. In a way, it’s not hard to see why. Twenty-six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Merkel’s ...

• The field of “public-school consultancy” is booming, writes Alissa Quart in The Atlantic, an example of how, though “on the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites’ emphasis on words such as ...

• Chefs’ memoirs, restaurant reviews, and cookbooks are everywhere, and yet the “creepy, and classist, and outdated” field of food writing—from Yelp to the New York Times—insistently ignores the millions of service employees who ...

• The Verge brings us a lovingly crafted five-part feature on The Baffler’s favorite presidential candidate, the transhumanist, coffin-bus-driving Zoltan Istvan. • Pantone has picked its 2016 colors of the year. The company made waves by selecting two colors, ...

• Movie columnists Grierson and Leitch are leaving their perch at Deadspin for a new home at The New Republic, and recalling their previous flight from Yahoo, whose decline and fall our own Chris Lehmann charted in The Baffler. • Same old shit, brand new outrage? On ...

• Today in billionaires: Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will be donating 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charitable purposes within their lifetimes. The announcement came in the form of a ...

• Over at The New Republic Peter Moskowitz details how apps “enable neighborhoods to retain their real estate value without having any local value,” starting with the fact they make it possible for neighborhoods to “function without having to work at ...

• After much begging and pleading with the Federal Aviation Administration to let it use drones to deliver packages, and setting up a special taskforce, Amazon hasn’t yet been able to find a safe way to do it. But that hasn’t prevented the company ...