Politics

Columns

Run, River

Will Noah

February 01, 2021

On Juan José Saer's backwater modernism.

The Life and Death of Modern Homosexuality

Ben Miller

January 28, 2021

Maybe the problem is precisely the ease with which we assume that there is a queer “us.”

Fake Meat, Real Profits

Charlie Mitchell

January 27, 2021

In its present composition, the new-meat dream will let us down.

A State of One’s Own

Francis Wade

January 26, 2021

On the colonial roots of postcolonial violence.

Operation Desert Shirt

Matt Stieb

January 18, 2021

Revisiting the civilian souvenirs of the Gulf War, thirty years on

Consequences for Thee, Not for Me

Felipe De La Hoz

January 14, 2021

What should accountability look like, post-Capitol siege?

Seen and Unseen

Zoë Hu

January 12, 2021

Who were the “comfort women”? Who is the “Asian woman” today?

Harvest of Dissent

Sharanya Deepak

January 07, 2021

A dispatch from the historic farmers' protests in Punjab.

Surfin’ USA

Vincent Bevins

January 04, 2021

Why the internet remains a tool of American hegemony.

Annus Horribilis

The Baffler

December 30, 2020

The Baffler looks back on the year that wasn’t.

Homage to Old Rottenhat

Michael Hofmann

December 21, 2020

On the protean genius of Robert Wyatt.

Portrait of the Artist as Content Creator

John Semley

December 15, 2020

On Mank and The Godfather Coda.