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April 08, 2016
• The AP Style Guide, never at the vanguard of gender justice, has officially done away with the term “mistress” for referring to a female party in an extramarital affair. Likewise, the armed forces are trying to bring their titles in line with recent DOD ...

Daily Bafflements
April 07, 2016
• As news breaks that David Cameron has personally intervened on behalf of fellow plutocrats in their battle to protect their offshore accounts from new EU tax rules, it is becoming more and more clear that the UK’s austerity policies are hardly the inevitability ...

Daily Bafflements
April 05, 2016
• Would you look at that! For only a few thousand dollars you can have lunch with the editor of that “senpai of seduction” and dubious etiquette peddler, Neil Strauss. It’s a rare opportunity to neg the man who could have saved us a lot of grief and tactfully ...

Daily Bafflements
April 04, 2016
• “I started my own career criticizing this genre; every now and then I wake up in the middle of the night absolutely certain that—as conventional modes of earning a living as an author dry up—I shall end my days contributing to it,” ...

Daily Bafflements
April 01, 2016
This morning, we got up early, on the right side of the bed, and had a strange new idea. We thought, just this once, we might showcase some of the good ideas the tech industry has proffered recently. After all, you’ve got to look at the bright side occasionally, ...

Daily Bafflements
March 31, 2016
• Today in innovation and its discontents: contributing editor Evgeny Morozov appeared in The Guardian this week, deconstructing the tech takeover of Western politics. “While the financial industry has historically been key to ‘buying time’ and staving ...

Daily Bafflements
March 30, 2016
• Oh, you thought Silicon Valley proper was the hub for tech-driven psychosis? Meet HubSpot, a Cambridge-based company that specializes in inbound marketing, where math, logic, and a healthy dose of anti-capitalism have all been thrown out the door in favor of . ...

Daily Bafflements
March 29, 2016
• Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker also known as weev, is claiming to have printed anti-semitic and racist fliers remotely so that they landed right on the printer trays of US universities. Angela Nagle wrote about this fascist sympathizer in the current issue ...

Daily Bafflements
March 28, 2016
• “Today we are seeing the effects of a relentless war against the very idea of working-class politics or working-class community,” writes Baffler contributing editor David Graeber. “That has left most working people with little way to express that ...

Daily Bafflements
March 25, 2016
• Today in billionaires: Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen is donating $100 million to research at the “frontiers” of the life sciences, including a large grant to the developers of CRISPR, a gene-editing and DNA-tracking tool. Corey Pein wrote about one of ...

Daily Bafflements
March 24, 2016
• Today in billionaires: one Silicon Valley plutocrat has taken to the courts to assert his ownership of some land in California’s San Mateo County in order to prevent public beach access. The odd thing about his claim is that the land in question is at the bottom of ...

Daily Bafflements
March 23, 2016
• “It is worth reiterating that Marxism is terrible,” reiterates the dully left-baiting columnist Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine. If it’s the mid-twentieth century again, we at The Baffler didn’t notice. (Also, if ...