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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 12, 2018

Oprah Winfrey 4 Prez. Proving that the United States has learned almost nothing from electing a garbage bag full of shit and Filet-o-Fish  to its highest office, calls for talk show queen Oprah to seek the White House in 2020 started trending on Twitter before she’d even ...

Not a Revolution

Neda Semnani

January 11, 2018

For now, Iranians don’t seem to be telegraphing the need for or hunger to dismantle their government and rebuild it from the from the ground up.

On Enmity

Missouri Williams

January 11, 2018

Enmity, rendered gamelike through this remove into the virtual, is the same as it’s always been, only now maybe even worse.

The Decline of The New Criterion

John Ganz

January 10, 2018

How do you go from witty reviews about Hegel and Kierkegaard to recommending a book by The Veritas Project’s James O’Keefe?

Our Refugees

Maytha Alhassen

January 09, 2018

What is the connection between the Trump travel bans and U.S. foreign policy?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 05, 2018

From the folks who brought you Juicero. After unsuccessfully trying to foist a $400 juice-pouch-squeezing machine on the masses, Silicon Valley luminary Doug Evans took some time to ponder the Next Big Thing. He found it in water—raw, unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized ...

The Afterlife of Newsies

Sarah Marshall

January 05, 2018

It was, within the Newsies fandom, a truth universally acknowledged that we could do whatever the hell we wanted.

The Duality of the Southern Thing

Rachel Bryan

January 03, 2018

The Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones race for Senate was the perfect embodiment of the two sides of Alabama.

The Story of a Face

J.W. McCormack

January 03, 2018

We are trying to read the story of a teenage girl, but Marguerite Duras is trying to tell us something else.

Baffling, Baffling, Baffled

The Baffler

December 29, 2017

“It won’t hurt much longer,” promises Javier Bardem’s character in the 2017 movie Mother! With this utter trainwreck of a year careening to a close, we guess you could say the same of 2017, although who knows what we have to look forward to as the second year of the ...

You’re a Monster, Mr. Trump

Chris Norris

December 22, 2017

The long national nightmare is a long way from over. 'Tis the season for epic corruption.

It’s a THAAD, THAAD, THAAD World

Ed Burmila

December 21, 2017

War hawks have a long history of pitching the illusion of a survivable nuclear war to an American public that tends to be unenthusiastic about dying in a holocaust of fire and radiation. If the prospect of nuclear war is downplayed, public opinion may be more open to ...