The Baffler

• Chicagoans appear to be disillusioned; Rahm now faces a runoff. As the the AP puts it, “Emanuel discovered it wasn’t enough to spend millions of dollars on TV ads, earn the backing of the city’s business leaders, and secure the hometown endorsement of ...

• Fifteen former students of colleges owned by Corinthian Colleges, one of the world’s largest for-profit education companies, are going on debt strike; Sarah Jaffe and Vauhini Vara report. • The FBI doesn’t seem to want the public to learn about the use of ...

• Wei-Hock Soon, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics whose work is often cited by politicians opposing climate change legislation, has been found to have accepted $1.2 million from the fossil-fuel industry over the past ten years, thanks to ...

• The latest Snowden revelation, published on The Intercept on Thursday afternoon, is particularly devastating. Spies from the U.S. and UK hacked into the computer systems of Gemalto, the world’s largest SIM card manufacturer. “With these stolen encryption keys, ...

• Here’s Jessica Roy, US Weekly style, on the preferred diets of the GOP presidential hopefuls, from Jeb Bush’s Paleo to Bobby Jindal’s “whatever” method. • PSA: This Jeb Bush flask is only $35 at the site Millennials for Jeb! The website copy ...

• Today in Billionaires: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has dumped stock in Exxon Mobil, citing a desire to stop supporting non-renewable energy resources that are threatening our environment. What’s that? Oh, sorry, no, the reason is actually just ...

• “A survey from the American Management Association found that 66 percent of employers monitor the Internet use of their employees, 45 percent track employee keystrokes, and 43 percent monitor employee email,” reports Esther Kaplan in Harper’s. “Only two ...

• Today in Labor Strikes: Workers at twenty-nine sea ports along the West Coast, from Bellingham to San Diego. Here’s a timeline of the long-running contract dispute. • Today in Billionaires: Bachelor billionaires, just in time for Valentine’s ...