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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

August 02, 2019

Attack of The Baby Shark Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo

Inside the Tulsi Hive

Evan Malmgren

July 31, 2019

Who exactly is buying what Tulsi Gabbard is selling?

Hashtag Propaganda

Erica X Eisen

July 30, 2019

Government organizations have harnessed social media to project their power into the furthest reaches of cyberspace.

Puerto Rico Was Ready

Alicia Kennedy

July 25, 2019

The protests in Puerto Rico are about much more than Ricardo Rosselló.

Labor of Love

Anne Elizabeth Moore

July 24, 2019

A few years back, women started foisting babies on to me and then wandering away to do something else—take a nap, cook dinner, watch TV. It had been at least two decades since my last babysitting gig—years during which, by most accounts, I had become something of a “bad ...

Fighting for Immunity

Lia Russell

July 23, 2019

A new bill seeks to expand legal protections for California sex workers. Does it go far enough?

This is Going to Get Worse

Ed Burmila

July 22, 2019

”Send her back” is what Trumpism has been all along.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 19, 2019

The meek shall inherit the Earth—after Bezos is done torching it. 

Hell is Other Internet People

Josie Thaddeus-Johns

July 17, 2019

On "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch

Private Fears in Public Places

Lida Maxwell

July 16, 2019

XY Chelsea veers between two narratives about Manning’s acts without deciding between them.

Children of the Wicker Man

Edward Millar,  John Semley

July 15, 2019

Roughly half a century after it first emerged, folk horror is back.

I Feel Better Now

Jake Bittle

July 11, 2019

Depressed by the burden of life under capitalism? There's an app for that!