The Baffler

• “Fast casuals,” fast food chains of a perceived higher quality, such as Chipotle, haven’t yet been the focus of movements like the Fight for $15, but that’s not to say they treat their employees any better than franchises like McDonalds. ...

• “Burn Down the House of Commons in Your Brand New Shoes” was Keith White’s ode to Details, which shuttered last week. And it started: May there be a place for it in paradise, where it will be ministered to by winged and be-haloed Orlando Blooms for ...

• As the song goes, breaking up is hard to do, but Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can ease the pain for you. Facebook is testing out a new set of tools called “take a break,” which quickly offer coupled users who change their relationship status the chance to see ...

• Wired reports on claims by the Tor Project, a free “onion routing” software for enabling anonymous communication online, that the FBI paid researchers at Carnegie Mellon University $1 million to hack its users aiding in an investigation which resulted in ...

• Over at In These Times, Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann reviews Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me About Obama, Hillary and the Democratic Party. “The book, for all its ...

• Last month Caitlin Dewey gave Washington Post readers the skinny on #femtube, an online agglomeration of women (especially young girls) with exorbitant YouTube followings. Today The Baffler’s Lucy Ellmann notes the boring religiosity with which these ...

• University architecture has always laundered the reputations of “slave traders, ennobled gangsters, monk-robbers and tyrants’ stooges.” That time-honored tradition is carrying on into the twenty-first century, and not just at Harvard. ...

• Johari Osayi Idusuyi, the woman prescient enough to bring a book (Claudia Rankine’s brilliant Citizen, at that) to a Donald Trump rally speaks to Jezebel. • On the Paris Review blog, Baffler regular Scott Beauchamp looks at the expressive vandalism of ...