The Baffler

• It is the eve of a UK general election so neck-and-neck that it seems no party will gain an outright majority—again. We know how this plays out, from the booing and catcalls of the conservative Murdoch press, to the main parties’ commitment to just carrying on. So ...

• Today in Billionaires: Harvard is renaming its public health school, according to an overfond profile of donor Gerald Chan in the Boston Globe (title: “Meet Boston’s Invisible Billionaire”). Chan, a mammonish yet modest real estate magnate, is buying up Harvard ...

•According to the data, we’re in a such a deadzone for romance that love songs aren’t being written anymore. •Yet Billionaires, that rare breed, overwhelmingly have long, slow, protracted marriages. •This begs the question: Did they marry “women with ...

• App nauseum: TechCrunch reports on Dufl, an app-based service that will pack your suitcase for you, deliver it to your hotel, and ship it back home at the end of your trip. Now if only you could get it to sit next to that screaming baby on the plane for you. • Elon’s ...

• Today in the sharing economy: CBC News reports that the popularity of “social dining apps,” companies that allow you to eat a home-cooked meal—in someone else’s home—is growing. Just book your meal with the app, take an Uber from your AirBnB sublet, and ...

• It is with a heavy heart that Bud Light said sorry for dubbing itself “The perfect beer for removing ‘No’ from your vocabulary for the night.” Part of its “Up for Whatever” campaign, this joke was, the company said, not a joke about ...

•Google has made a friendship pact with eight European newspapers. How nice! Essentially, the company is setting up a €150 million fund to promote, you guessed it, innovation. This follows arguments with publishers about its “anti-competitive” behavior (read: ...

• Corinthian Colleges, the vast, for-profit education company, has closed the twenty-eight schools it had left. The historic overnight shutdown operation leaves 16,000 students in the lurch (and in debt). • Vice Media has launched a little something to keep you ...