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July 11, 2016
• Over at Medium, Michelle Alexander writes: As Natasha Vargas-Cooper commented earlier this year on the Baffler blog: • In response to a Pokémon Go user “claiming” the Westboro Baptist Church using a Pokémon called Clefairy ...

Daily Bafflements
July 06, 2016
• “It may be odd for a Labour Prime Minister and a Republican President to have a common political interest, but we do!” wrote former British prime minister Tony Blair in a memo to president George W. Bush. With so much Corbyn bashing making the rounds, ...

Daily Bafflements
July 05, 2016
• When Gay Talese’s newest book, about motelier and voyeur Gerald Foos, was preemptively excerpted in a certain bastion of liberalism (and, more relevantly, fact-checking), he probably didn’t expect to have to disown it before the publication date even ...

Daily Bafflements
July 01, 2016
• Planning your summer vacation? At Montana’s Paws Up resort, wealthy vacationers can learn the skills they might need to survive the apocalypse that they are currently bringing about, for the low, low price of $1,420 per night. Don’t worry, “it’s a ...

Daily Bafflements
June 29, 2016
• Bernie Sanders takes to the pages of the New York Times to tell the Democrats to “wake up.” We’re a little bummed he didn’t borrow the title of Tom Frank’s latest book, Listen, ...

Daily Bafflements
June 27, 2016
• “A lot of people still think they just voted in a referendum on immigration. What’s more, they think they won,” writes Abi Wilkinson on Brexit, over at Vox. “The problem isn’t necessarily that 52 percent of  voters agree with ...

Daily Bafflements
June 22, 2016
• Donald Trump may have built the Evangelical advisory board he so desperately needs, but his efforts to woo the Christian community are still lagging. That said, it’s impressive he managed to get Jerry Falwell Jr. to pose in front of ...

Daily Bafflements
June 20, 2016
• It’s world refugee day, the day we briefly recall the 65 million people on the planet who are displaced. Astra Taylor travelled to Greece on the day the EU-Turkey refugee deal went into effect and reported back in The Baffler, no. 31. Liberals ...

Daily Bafflements
June 17, 2016
• After you read about how Moon Juice exec Amanda Chantal Bacon eats—between dropping her toddler Rohan off at school and Kundalini yoga in Venice, that is—you may need to cleanse by reading Heather Havrilesky’s new essay on “the foodie devolution” in our ...

Daily Bafflements
June 15, 2016
• Today, in lawsuits: Peter Thiel’s lawyer-for-hire has decided to intervene in the wake of a Gawker investigation into Donald Trump’s mysterious hairdo. Delving into the origins of Trump’s gravity-defying coiffure is, ...

Daily Bafflements
June 13, 2016
• Microsoft has bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. If you’re scratching your head at how a jobs site that rarely provides any actual opportunities has continued to be worth anything to anyone, perhaps Ann Friedman’s read on the cultural resonance of ...

Daily Bafflements
June 08, 2016
• Hillary Clinton made history last night, becoming the first woman to secure a spot as the Democratic nominee. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard last night, she told a crowd of raucous supporters, “Tonight’s victory is not about one person. It belongs to ...