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White Knight Syndrome

Niela Orr

December 05, 2017

FBI agents Dale Cooper and James Comey are throwbacks to an idyllic past. They should stay there.

K Street Taxpocalypse

Max B. Sawicky

December 04, 2017

Neglect founded on hypocrisy regarding the deficit implications of giant tax cuts is not new for the GOP.

Reading like a Bureaucrat

Merve Emre

December 04, 2017

“Perhaps it is just as well that writers do not have political power,” wrote Steinbeck after receiving ideas from Faulkner.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 01, 2017

This motherfucker’s name is CHAZ. Novelist Emma Cline has a shitty ex-boyfriend who puts our shitty ex-boyfriends to shame. This shitty ex-boyfriend hired a shitty lawyer to do incredibly shitty things. Hopefully both the shitty ex and the shitty lawyer get ...

Administering Evil

Maximillian Alvarez

November 29, 2017

The modern neoliberal university has no solid answer for someone like Richard Spencer.

Who’s Afraid of the DNC?

Jacob Silverman

November 27, 2017

It took all of five minutes for Tom Perez to quote Hamilton.

American Pimps

Shawn Hamilton

November 22, 2017

As Iceberg Slim might put it, the players and public alike have been sold a series of air castles.

Revolutionary Redux

Micah White,  Emmett Rensin

November 22, 2017

The following letters are a response to Emmett Rensin’s Issue 36 essay,“Total Quality Revolution.” Reinventing Activism Micah White I have been an activist my entire life—but I have never felt accepted by the activist scene. I organized my first protest at the age of ...

How Education Reform Ate the Democratic Party

Jennifer C. Berkshire

November 17, 2017

The problem is that the Democrats have little to offer that’s markedly different from what DeVos is selling.

The Grim Circus of Power

Abi Wilkinson

November 17, 2017

If it wants to transform the UK’s culture of sexual harassment and assault, Westminster will have to change.

The Miseducation of Lady Bird

Lauren Oyler

November 15, 2017

Greta Gerwig's much-praised "Lady Bird" puts us all in a teenage wasteland.

Sophia, with Love and Hate

Pedro Neves Marques

November 14, 2017

Meet Sophia, meritocratic bourgeois robot and nationalized citizen of Saudi Arabia.