The Baffler

No Future As Elizabeth II’s seventy-year long reign of terror comes to an end, and King Charles Sausage Fingers Paddington Rumplestump Bangers and Crisps III ascends the throne, Britain has been thrown into hugger-mugger, harum-scarum, utter balderdash: bike racks have ...

It’s Just a Jump to the Left I have always admired the writer Iain Sinclair for the extraneous vowel in his name and the execrable titles he gives his excellent books, like Slow Chocolate Autopsy, in which we meet Norton, confined to London’s city limits but free to roam ...

Bouncing Powder, Ski Equipment, Bolivian Marching Dust . . . Given all the despicable policy and crocodile tears Republicans have unloosed on their behalf, it’s about time babies began paying out. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on the Texas-Mexico border ...

Dark Fate Has the planet Earth always been an inhospitable hell pit, or have we merely become more articulate in enumerating its horrors? Researchers in the Gulf of Mexico have discovered a new monster with eleven spines clearly up to no good as it waits out man’s mass ...

Your Friends in Tech When the Supreme Court incinerated its vestigial claims to legitimacy earlier this summer with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, certain quarters of the internet resounded with inexplicable optimism about all the wondrous ways in which Big Tech would come ...

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Zombie Death is not the end, nor is disability, injury, or the need to visit the bathroom any excuse to falter in your labor if you happen to be an Amazon warehouse employee. Where there is profit, there is life. In a grim preview of how our ...

Monkey See, Monkey Do Not that long after our vindictive patriarch in the sky created Adam on, as some have determined, October 23 at 5 a.m. EST in 4004 BCE, God must have ascertained that our sorry species would accomplish little of lasting value. In the thousands of years ...

Dream a Little Dream It’s clear to all observers that the American Dream, that grim fantasy of cookie-cutter comfort, has come in for a beating in recent decades, in no small part due to the fact that housing prices have shot up over 260 percent since 1980, while the ...