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Scream Time

Will Meyer

February 19, 2019

Apple’s surveillance as self-care

The 4-Hour Fascist

Adam Morris

February 15, 2019

Self-help guru Tim Ferriss loves the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto almost as much as Benito Mussolini did.

Bloody Valentine

Ann Neumann

February 14, 2019

Search “Ted Bundy hot” for a creepy, sticky, click-y sampling of this moment’s mass infatuation and its backlash.

Under the Australian Sun

Aaron Timms

February 14, 2019

Australia is heating up in ways that are no longer part of the normal pattern.

Turn Back!

Jon Greenaway

February 13, 2019

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA sets its sights on Brexit-era Britain

Under the Boot

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

February 12, 2019

For all his talk of leaving the right, Max Boot hasn’t wandered too far from home.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 08, 2019

The Anarchic Kool-Aid Acid Test

Grift the Pain Away

Kristen Martin

February 07, 2019

How a so-called medical medium exploits our broken healthcare system to profit off the chronically ill.

A Conflict of Interest

Maryann Bylander,  Eula Biss

February 05, 2019

The idea that microcredit will be a panacea for the problem of poverty has been revealed as fantasy.

Capitalism’s New Clothes

Evgeny Morozov

February 04, 2019

Shoshana Zuboff's new book on "surveillance capitalism" emphasizes the former at the expense of the latter.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 01, 2019

The $239,958,219.15 Question

Gilding The Wall

Matt Cameron

January 29, 2019

On a Tuesday earlier this month, I walked out of jail and drove until my car ran out of gas and died a mile from my house in a crowded Boston intersection. This happened not for lack of access to fuel or money to buy it with—or even because I had failed to notice that the gas ...