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Zuck’s New Scam

Lizzie O’Shea

May 21, 2019

Facebook's new vision of privacy doesn’t hold any power because it does not challenge the definitive power framework for users of social media.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 17, 2019

Driver, Shut the Fuck Up

The Uber Presidency

Ross Barkan

May 16, 2019

As Trump is the apotheosis of rank materialism and revanchist nationalism in the political arena, Uber is Silicon Valley’s greatest and most absurd offering to the American public.

Contra Vance

Rachel Bryan

May 15, 2019

Hillbillies in mainstream books and films fill a market need for scapegoats.

Defeating the Voters

Dave Denison

May 14, 2019

Civilifications

On the state level, legislative power brokers are often at war against the plainly expressed will of the voters themselves.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 10, 2019

Life Is Like A Box Of Curated VHS Tapes, You Never Know What You're Gonna Get

Don’t Let People Enjoy Things

Kate Wagner

May 09, 2019

Kate Takes

The simultaneous release of the final season of Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame has wrought upon this earth the swarm of a particular breed of internet person, one who responds to critics of any corporate franchise or brand with this insipid image: Let me be clear: this ...

Empire in Denial

Simon Waxman

May 07, 2019

From oil to sugar to bird crap—the long reach of American colonial power.

wE’rE a rEPuBLiC nOt A dEMoCRacY

Ed Burmila

May 06, 2019

To declare that America is “not a democracy” is as useful as pointing out that it is not a monarchy, or that the Pope wears a funny hat.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 03, 2019

My Big Fat AI Wedding

The “Free Speech” Cheat

Shane Burley

May 03, 2019

College Student Senate chambers are not historically hotbeds of nationwide controversy, but Turning Point USA is set to rewrite the rules of campus politics. The ultra-conservative student group, which could easily be labeled “the youth wing” of Trump Republicanism, has ...

An American Lab Test Abroad

Erica X Eisen

May 02, 2019

Ireland's cervical cancer scandal, and its underlying logic of profit-driven, health care, has ramifications far beyond the country's shores.