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The Beautiful Game’s Ugly Speculators

Brendan O’Connor

March 04, 2019

There is no ethical soccer under capitalism.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 01, 2019

The Cat Mask From Hell

Time’s Up

Charlotte Shane

February 27, 2019

Acting more “like men” isn’t the key to progressive success, and neither is shaming optimistic children.

The Searchers

Madeleine Wattenbarger

February 20, 2019

Searching with the family members of Mexico's thousands of disappeared in Guerrero.

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.