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Author: Natasha Vargas-Cooper

Columns

Fear and Insanity in Michigan
March 22, 2016
Jason Brian Dalton, the alleged mass shooter who left six people dead in random street attacks this February, told police that he believed his Uber app was controlling his mind and body. According to Det. William Moorian’s report for the Department of Public Safety, Dalton, ...

Daily Bafflements
March 21, 2016
• Over at Buzzfeed, Baffler contributor Niela Orr has written, beautifully, about the myth of cultural mobility, in the context of her intimate, degrading experience working for Instacart (“Uber for groceries”): “Instacart times their ...

Daily Bafflements
March 18, 2016
• Jill Stein wants Bernie Sanders to know she’s totally open to the possibility of “collaborating” with him on an anti-Clinton ticket. The perennial Green Party candidate has said as much to the Sanders campaign several times with no response, leaving her ...

Daily Bafflements
March 17, 2016
• While mourning the death of so-called constitutional “originalist” Antonin Scalia, the GOP has, as promised, completely ignored the Second Article, refusing their “advice and consent” to new Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Mitch McConnell ...

The Breitbart Betrayals
March 17, 2016
There aren’t many hard-and-fast rules left in the grand digital Guignol of political journalism but, without question, a central organizing principle should be the old dictum of the schoolyard: when a bully pushes you, you push back. However, over at Breitbart ...

A Very Rubio Ending
March 16, 2016
Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an election season. To that end, The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give a visual rendering of the day’s signature political ...

Daily Bafflements
March 15, 2016
• American Rifleman, the NRA magazine that has a history of advertising products described as “survivalist snake oil,” is running sponsored content that ghoulishly targets the victims of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan: Read Jacob Silverman’s grim ...

Daily Bafflements
March 14, 2016
• As British chancellor George Osborne indicates—yet again!—that he is making cuts to benefits for the disabled, we roll out contributing editor David Graeber’s salvo from issue 30. In “Despair Fatigue” David sees an end to the ...

Daily Bafflements
March 11, 2016
• ICYMI: “Let us now address the greatest American mystery at the moment: what motivates the supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump?” So begins founding editor Thomas Frank’s latest for The Guardian. Though white, working class ...

Daily Bafflements
March 10, 2016
• Baffler contributing editor Astra Taylor reports on “the troubling intersection between higher education and high finance” over at The Nation. And it’s not just Harvard she’s talking about: in the wake of state funding cuts, more and more public ...

Straight Out of Centrist Casting
March 10, 2016
Say what you will about this demented presidential election cycle—it has, at a minimum, forced the myths of Beltway centrism out into gloriously open view. The meme that has lately captured the responsible commentariat is not that the rise of Donald Trump represents the ...

Bring On the Unisex Onesies
March 09, 2016
Welcome to The Baffler’s agony corner, YOUR SORRY ASS, where Amber A’Lee Frost dispenses bossy, judgmental advice on how to live your life fairly, kindly, and with good humor. Send us your rants and pleas, please: [email protected]. Dear Your Sorry Ass, I ...