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To the Bitter End

Evan Malmgren

February 11, 2020

Notes on Michael Bennet’s zombie campaign.

Is Patriarchy Too Big to Fail?

Laurie Penny

February 11, 2020

On the trials of Trump and Weinstein.

Law and Disorder

Felipe De La Hoz

February 05, 2020

Increasingly, immigration officers are accountable to no one.

Charity Believeth All Things

A. S. Hamrah

February 03, 2020

Last month, Semiotext(e) reissued Gary Indiana’s Depraved Indifference, originally published in 2001. Here is A.S. Hamrah’s introduction to the novel. We live in a time of exceptional, unprecedented grift, so much so that our era is turning the history of the United ...

Class Carpetbagger

Corey Pein

February 03, 2020

Pete Buttigieg’s comedy of class-signaling errors is a great sign for the socialist movement.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 31, 2020

War Crimes: The Video Game 

The Long Arm of the Law

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

January 27, 2020

The dangerous rise of the global “good cop.”

Barons of Crap

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

January 22, 2020

On the disruptors who didn’t change anything.

All in the FAM

Kamil Ahsan

January 16, 2020

The pyramid scheme and the American way of selling.

Business as Usual

Madeleine Wattenbarger

January 09, 2020

How the elite university launders McKinsey's reputation

Nostradamus of the Obvious

Mark Dery

January 08, 2020

Washington’s permanent ruling class knew they had an indefatigable ally in Cokie Roberts.

Small Worlds

Zoë Hu

January 07, 2020

Did we really need another adaptation of "Little Women"?