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Fear and Loathing in Cascadia

Britta Lokting

February 27, 2018

The bioregion at the intersection of liberal hipsterdom, ecology, and white nationalism.

Downward-Facing Capitalist Dogma

Josh Hall

February 27, 2018

What makes employee wellbeing schemes so distasteful is their attempt to disguise companies' base motivations with the language of care and health.

Boys Do Cry (and Shoot)

Jay Baron Nicorvo

February 26, 2018

As with the science supporting climate change, confirmation of masculine weakness is capable of inspiring stubborn cases of denial.

Parkland: Urgency and Insurgency

Jacob Silverman

February 26, 2018

Today's digital-savvy teens are wise in ways their elders are not—and they're not intimidated by trolling from the right.

The Midterms and the Turn Leftward

Sean McElwee

February 23, 2018

This year, Democrats will pick up a basket of seats, ranging from highly educated and upscale to working-class and rural.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 23, 2018

Let's play everyone's favorite game: Multimillionaire Quizzes Billionaire On Basic Grocery Prices!

Billy Graham’s Crusades

Chris Lehmann

February 23, 2018

Billy Graham steered clear of the complexities of the modern world and promised his followers serenity and salvation.

Max Boot’s Vietnam

John Ganz

February 20, 2018

Edward Lansdale does not represent the “Road not Taken” in Vietnam, he is the crystallized essence of the willful blindness that led us there.

A Faster Horse?

Liza Featherstone

February 20, 2018

No one has been more lionized for his contempt for focus groups than Steve Jobs.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 16, 2018

What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant? From the ivy-clad brain trust of our elite universities comes an innovative proposition: the Visas Between Individuals Program, in which Americans can sponsor an immigrant in order to extract their labor at below minimum wage rates, ...

The Mountain of Everything Keeps on Giving

Matt Hern

February 15, 2018

The Yukon—like the rest of Canada—is saturated with colonialist contradictions.

Temporary Autonomous Taco Zones

Luke Cragg

February 14, 2018

On mourning the loss of a fast food outpost with a candlelight vigil in an asphalt wasteland—and the rise of folk détournement.