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Eat the Press

Chris Lehmann

June 08, 2017

GOP strategists want the news media to be their chew toy.

The Silent Treatment

Max B. Sawicky

June 08, 2017

It’s a bit as though Samuel Beckett was drafting a revised screenplay of All the President’s Men.

Citizen Zuckerberg

David V. Johnson

June 06, 2017

Why would Zuckerberg want the job of president? Let’s be real: whose future is brighter, the United States’ or Facebook’s?

Daily Bafflements

The Baffler

June 02, 2017

• Baffler contributor Corey Pein reports for The Guardian on a Trump supporter who’s received a very special award from some of the president’s associates. John Beavers, who last year reportedly sold his house to campaign independently on behalf of Donald Trump ...

Social Media Forensics

Patrick Blanchfield

May 31, 2017

The problem isn’t whether or not people “politicize” violence like the nightmare in Portland.

Less-Lethal Weapon

Will Meyer

May 30, 2017

Taser International, now Axon, has rebranded to better showcase its “suite of smart weapons.”

Flint, Beyond the Crisis

Hanif Abdurraqib

May 26, 2017

To call what is happening in Flint, Michigan a “water crisis” feels both exact and not. I’m not sure there’s other language that is as definite, short, and sharp for what was a massive institutional failure on many levels, spanning several years. The story, well ...

Listen to the Wins: How Larry Krasner’s Victory Sounded from the DJ Booth

Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela

May 25, 2017

Instead of “Don’t Stop Believin’,” I got to play songs with a little more bite.

Fascism for Dummies

Rick Perlstein

May 19, 2017

Would the Holocaust have happened if Moe Howard was Chancellor of Germany? The Gulag, if Stalin was swapped out for Stan Laurel?

Complicity, Not Tyranny

Yasmin Nair

May 18, 2017

The anger over Szala's op-ed is like the anger over Trump: it allows us to forget that what’s rotten is an entire system.

Trump, Pumped and Dumped

Max B. Sawicky

May 17, 2017

As the tally of Donald Trump’s high and low crimes and misdemeanors grows, discussion of his removal tends to run aground when the subject of impeachment comes up. His support in the Congress is said to be too deep. You need a majority of votes in the House to impeach, and ...

The Gospel According to Mitch

Maximillian Alvarez

May 16, 2017

“And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”                        —Luke 16:15   It will surprise no one to hear that ...