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Trade and Unions
October 04, 2018
The shared struggle against the predatory global plutocracy ought to unite workers across national boundaries.

Alabama’s Tiny Terror
September 20, 2018
Reader: Are you someone who is angry in an inchoate way at the Trump administration as an institution but who would prefer to focus your anger like a laser beam on specific individuals? We here at The Baffler are here to help! As a wise man once told my father while trying to ...

Making Sausage of Salazar
September 18, 2018
There are long-standing, reasonable arguments about why socialism is terrible. I don’t think they hold up, but these arguments are not what animates criticism of left challenges to the Democratic Party establishment. Instead we are treated to a barrage of evil, inane gossip, ...

After the Storm
September 11, 2018
After Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans and parts of the Gulf Coast in late August 2005, members of Congress wanted to know how and why the federal government’s response had fallen so short. Congressional hearings on this most catastrophic of storms included titles ...