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If It Looks Like a Duck

Yohann Koshy

November 09, 2018

How to read How to Read Donald Duck in 2018.

Our One-Weird-Trick Military

Scott Beauchamp

November 06, 2018

The American military has blocked out our nation’s ability to solve problems without the help of the Pentagon.

The Florida Man Can’t

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

November 05, 2018

The Florida of the abstract joke is a worthy cipher for America’s signature blend of incompetent savagery.

Trafficking in Lies

Juno Mac,  Molly Smith

November 05, 2018

Viewing trafficking as conceptually akin to kidnap allows us to sidestep broader questions of safe migration.

Beto at the Border

Michelle García

November 02, 2018

Latinos work to wrest the right's political weapon of choice—the U.S.-Mexico border itself.

Land of Extraction

Sammy Feldblum

November 02, 2018

New Mexico heads into an election that will decide how to handle an oil and gas boom.

Populist Persuasions

Joe Lowndes

October 31, 2018

Imagine that the left set out to reclaim populism. Is it possible?

Speaking Ills

John Semley

October 31, 2018

Debate—and especially the challenge to debate—exists as an end in itself. Debate has become a conservative fetish object.

Twilight of the Racist Uncles

Ed Burmila

October 30, 2018

Younger users aren’t ditching Facebook because of Alex Jones, but because listening to all of America’s uncles at once is our literal nightmare.

Having it Both Ways

David Neiwert

October 30, 2018

Both sides don’t do it—not when it comes to political violence in America.

Bolsonaro Rising

Alex Hochuli

October 29, 2018

Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy has elected a neofascist as president.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 26, 2018

Exactly What You’d Expect If you guessed the person responsible for sending homemade explosive devices to the Obamas, the Clintons, George Soros, Robert De Niro, and CNN would drive a white van tricked out on every surface with unhinged InfoWars-inspired bumper stickers, then ...