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The Baffler

October 26, 2018

Exactly What You’d Expect If you guessed the person responsible for sending homemade explosive devices to the Obamas, the Clintons, George Soros, Robert De Niro, and CNN would drive a white van tricked out on every surface with unhinged InfoWars-inspired bumper stickers, then ...

The Horror, the Horror

Michael Reid Roberts

October 26, 2018

With "Suspira" and "Halloween," a genre copies itself for the intellectual property era.

Health and Inhuman Services

Josh Fruhlinger

October 25, 2018

Trump Trading Cards

Roger Severino has a plan to wipe out civil rights for more than a million Americans.

Brutalist Fiction

J.W. McCormack

October 25, 2018

After reading Diane Williams, the classic short story seems like a sprawling black hole.

The Palace and the Storm

Kate Wagner

October 23, 2018

Only the rich will survive climate change.

Nudging the Lexicon

Sophie Haigney

October 23, 2018

The more we use The New Gmail, the more we beckon the end of meaningful human language.

Nostalgia Mining

Amber A’Lee Frost

October 22, 2018

All Tomorrow’s Parties

Celebrating the men of a once-massive industrial labor union that essentially no longer exists.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 19, 2018

Peaky Blinders Corporate drones interested in shielding yourselves from all distraction not directly related to the accumulation of profit, rejoice! Wear Space, a new prototype from Panasonic, will free the next generation of peons from pesky diversions like “anything other ...

The Archivists of Extinction

Kate Wagner

October 19, 2018

In an era of capitalist ruin, we need an architectural history of the people.

Boys to Men

Brendan O’Connor

October 16, 2018

Gavin McInnes's proto-fascist Proud Boys have become a militant wing of the Republican Party.

The Banality of Good

Aaron Timms

October 15, 2018

Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk is a political book with nothing interesting to say about politics.

Junk Merchants

Chris Lehmann

October 15, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Red ink and jitters: How long will Wall Street stay bullish about Trumpism?