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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 21, 2020

Burn together for the full experience.

Storyline Fever

James Pogue

February 20, 2020

This election is all about asking how enamored of capitalism Americans really are.

What the Doctors Ordered

Adam Gaffney

February 19, 2020

Inside the medical profession, the tide is turning toward Medicare for All.

This Brand is Late Capitalism

Rachel Connolly

February 19, 2020

A lifestyle writing tic outlives its usefulness.

Unnamed and Unsurveilled

Tom Thor Buchanan

February 13, 2020

Craigslist is the last holdout of a vanishing internet ethos.

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.”