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Uber Undone

Noah Kulwin

September 04, 2019

Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped definitively punctures the Uber mirage

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

August 30, 2019

Diversity Never Tasted So Sweet 

The Antifascist Question

Brendan O’Connor

August 29, 2019

As far-right violence continues, Republicans invoke the specter of antifa to crack down on the left

Ghost Towns of Instagram

Angella d’Avignon

August 28, 2019

Inside a new California Gold Rush

Presidential Pretenders

Juliano Fiori

August 27, 2019

There are many lessons in the collapse of Venezuela.

Happy as Cory

Jacob Silverman

August 22, 2019

An evening with the candidate of peace, love, and very little policy.

Whither the Newsman?

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

August 22, 2019

A new documentary about 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace obscures more than it reveals.

Pinkwashing Liberation

Rami Yasir

August 16, 2019

Co-opting the language of resistance to erase gay Palestinians

We Can’t Go on like This

Ross Barkan

August 15, 2019

The Mike Gravel presidential campaign, which shut down last week, will probably be remembered as a curiosity singular to the late 2010s, when American politics spun out of orbit for good, and the solemn, useless rules of the spectacle were discarded. The campaign, often and ...

Mind Over Matter

Jake Bittle

August 14, 2019

Williamson is neither a kooky radical nor a spiritual crusader, but rather a thinly disguised conservative moralist.

The Business of Cruelty

Brendan O’Connor

August 13, 2019

On the heels of a surge in white nationalist violence came the largest workplace immigration raid in a decade.

Double-Blind

Rachel Connolly

August 07, 2019

On a promising field of biomedical research making great strides—for white people.