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A Work in Progress
December 27, 2019
Last month Chesa Boudin, a thirty-nine-year-old public defender, narrowly won an election to become the next district attorney of San Francisco. Boudin ran as a progressive outsider, promising to overhaul a criminal justice system that has locked up too many black and brown ...

Luxury on the Installment Plan
December 26, 2019
If I wanted to, I could lead a perfectly comfortable life without owning anything ever again. It’s possible that my quality of life might actually improve. A lifestyle devoid of ownership wouldn’t actually save me money—it would probably be costlier than my current one. ...

Fresh Hell
December 20, 2019
Making Crime Legal Again A court has ruled that MI5’s policy of allowing agents and informants to perpetrate serious crimes (as long as it’s, you know, for totally cool spy reasons) is completely legal.   But, Do You Have the Meats? Earlier this week, a Missouri ...

The Baffler Welcomes J. W. McCormack
December 12, 2019
The Baffler is delighted to announce that J. W. McCormack is our new fiction editor. He will oversee the relaunch of the magazine’s fiction section with new stories in each bimonthly print issue as well as online fiction offerings every month. He joins Nicole Terez Dutton, ...

Your Friends Are Not HR
December 12, 2019
I’ve fought two uphill battles during my time on earth: mental illness (neurodivergence) and friendship. Friendship is difficult for me. When people are not upfront with what they need from me or what they want to say to me, the difficulty of reading social cues intersects ...