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Author: Corey Pein

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Not Intended for Mature Audiences
June 16, 2016
Yes, Donald Trump is once more laying into the media establishment that somehow attacks and slanders him while also acting as the premier delivery system for the bigoted ego rampages that the weary electorate has come to know as Trumpism. The invective-spewing maestro of ...

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 ...

Debt Resistance Lite: John Oliver’s Stunt
June 10, 2016
Last Sunday, HBO’s topical comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver aired a segment in which the show acquired and then retired nearly $15 million of consumer medical debt. Oliver used his monologue to go after debt buyers who use questionable tactics to collect on ...

Sexting, Lies, and Videotape
June 09, 2016
Midway through the painfully exhaustive documentary Weiner, the title subject’s wife, Hillary Clinton’s adviser Huma Abedin, is puttering around her Manhattan kitchen, fumbling through an array of flatware in an effort to give a semblance of normalcy to her day. One of the ...

Anthem for Bummed Youth
June 08, 2016
As the Democratic primary campaign comes to a close, let us recall how strange and improbable it has been all along. Hillary Clinton started out as her party’s hand-picked standard-bearer, the baddest and brightest of the nation’s dominant political faction. No ...

Trump Won’t Lose—So He’ll Have to Quit
June 08, 2016
Politics is hard, so The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give us a visual rendering of the day’s signature political controversies. The only problem is that David can’t draw, so his cartoons are word pictures—which is to say, words. Just ...

Daily Bafflements
June 07, 2016
• Today we premiere our summer issue, entitled “Memory Holes,” a series of dispatches from distinct destinations, real and imaginary, at which history has been sacrificed, overwritten, or restyled. Whether you’re in Hungary, where Susan Faludi ...

Daily Bafflements
June 06, 2016
• “Which has been easier for you,” Baffler contributing editor Susan Faludi asked her father, “to be accepted as a woman after being born a man, or to be accepted as a Magyar after being born a Jew?” Faludi’s new book, In the Darkroom, is ...

Who’s Defamin’ Who?
June 02, 2016
Anyone who’s trudged through the past fortnight’s worth of punditry about the Gawker–Hulk Hogan–Peter Thiel donnybrook can be forgiven a fugitive longing for the codes of honor that settled sexually charged dude-feuds back in the bad old age of chivalry. ...

Imperial Style
June 01, 2016
It is the quintessential first-world epiphany: a search for a British-made canvas rucksack for a safari trip is made in vain—and a banker’s life is changed forever. That’s the opening gambit, at least, to one of the many PR pitches that’s hit my inbox over the last ...