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March 03, 2016
• “Just imagine this scenario: It is the first day of class and I, the professor, walk into the classroom, throw my bag on the table; the bag sags open, showing the glimmer of a concealed, holstered gun,” writes Keffrelyn Brown in Pacific Standard. It’s a ...

Daily Bafflements
March 02, 2016
• Today in Super Tuesday hangovers: Donald Trump wins big, bringing him to a total of 315 delegates, giving him a 110 delegate lead over Ted Cruz and a 200-something lead over Marco Rubio. While we encourage you to start crafting a plan for where and how you’ll flee the ...

Daily Bafflements
February 29, 2016
• Remember when Mark Zuckerberg decided to slaughter his own food? And when he embraced thank you notes? No, we had carelessly forgotten, too. Those were the days when we all still thought he was dull and robotic, not “the aspirational ...

Daily Bafflements
February 26, 2016
• Are you a priest trying to snag rosaries in bulk, or a billionaire looking to deck out your mansion with a full array of Madonnas on the half shell? Luckily, we’ve got a trade show that’s just for you. The Italian market for religious goods is worth $5.2 ...

Daily Bafflements
February 25, 2016
• Baffler contributor A.S. Hamrah has reviewed some of the year’s top films over at n+1, highlighting the delusional cheeriness of which American entertainment is made, from The Martian—“a children’s movie about how great science is”—to ...

Daily Bafflements
February 24, 2016
• Political journalists are backpedaling wildly on their previous statements that Trump could never win this many states in a row and would never get this far. (A few die-hard optimists on the right are still arguing that Trump can’t win, ...

Daily Bafflements
February 22, 2016
• How do the teen subcultures of high school map onto those of the Internet? “Those blessed with early-onset hotness are drawn to YouTube,” writes Elspeth Reeve in the New Republic, “the fashionable and seemingly wealthy post to Instagram, the most ...

Daily Bafflements
February 18, 2016
• Rochester bafflers: don’t miss your chance to see contributing editor Jacob Silverman speaking at RIT’s MAGIC Center tonight! Jacob will be discussing privacy concerns in our digital age, the subject of his recent book, Terms of Service: Social Media and the ...

Daily Bafflements
February 17, 2016
• Baffler founding editor Thomas Frank is gracing the pages of the Guardian with a few thoughts on what’s the matter with the Democratic Party. After all, Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street ties are hardly an anomaly. Even blaming the ...

Daily Bafflements
February 16, 2016
• Here’s Baffler contributing editor Susan Faludi on the feminist case against Bernie in the New York Times: • The frontman of Eagles of Death Metal, the band that was performing at the Bataclan when it was attacked in December, is calling for universal access to guns. ...

Daily Bafflements
February 11, 2016
• “Holy Shit!” writes Gizmodo‘s Maddie Stone, on the discovery of the gravitational waves originally posited by Einstein in his 1916 general theory of relativity, which ends “a century-long hunt” for the spacetime ripples that scientists hope ...

Daily Bafflements
February 10, 2016
• Today in politics: the New Hampshire presidential primary votes are in, and Trump—the winner on the Republican side—is showing no sign of going away quickly or quietly. On the bright side, the night wasn’t only aggravating ...