War is a Racket
August 09, 2018
Nate Bethea is co-host of the podcast A Hell of a Way to Die.
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The “Classical Liberal” Pivot
August 08, 2018
A new big tent for the clown show—from Paul Ryan to the YouTube right.
Operation Snowflake
August 07, 2018
Mysteries of the all-powerful—yet infinitely fragile—generational stereotype.
Follow the Pelf
Paul Manafort and Maria Butina and the world of global influence-peddling and Trumpian corruption.
The Vital Possibility of Abdul El-Sayed
That Abdul El-Sayed is even possible in the dark terrain of our present moment is a sign that history is moving.
Fresh Hell
August 03, 2018
Fast Times at Sears Department Store
International Man of Monocracy
Reader: Are you someone who is angry in an inchoate way at the Trump administration as an institution but who would prefer to focus your anger like a laser beam on specific individuals? We here at The Baffler are here to help! As a wise man once told my father while trying to ...
Enemy of the People
August 02, 2018
Editor’s note: When Aaron Cantú arrived at his new job at the Santa Fe Reporter last year, he came with the baggage of a recent arrest. Two months earlier, he spent a night in jail with hundreds of others detained during protests on Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. His ...
The Tagorean Impulse
August 02, 2018
Too long ignored, Rabindranath Tagore's writings offer a powerful alternative in an age of nativist ressentiment.
The Permanent Vacationer
Your friend's life is a 24/7 holiday. Don't hate—no one likes a Bitter Betty.
So You’ve Been Punched in the Nuts
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America? and the legacy of the macho prank show.
Seizing Socialism’s Moment
July 31, 2018
We don’t have a very visible fighting feminist movement in the way that we’ve had in the past.