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Frozen

Max B. Sawicky

January 22, 2018

The Trump junta has now reduced the bulk of the federal government to the activity level of the chief executive himself.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 19, 2018

Now Entering: The Comfort ZoneTM Is the integrity of your spiritual being under assault in this frightful epoch of data mining and climate degradation? Do you wish you could attain, if only for a fleeting moment, a sense of mindfulness in the midst of this unending horror show? ...

Carbon Omissions

Samuel Miller-McDonald

January 18, 2018

Your sparkling utopia is just dumb dust if non-carbon energy infrastructure is not a central pillar of your program. 

Radiating Racism

Rafia Zakaria

January 16, 2018

Until we recognize our common humanity with the poor, it's a shithole world.

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.