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Who’s Afraid of Ocasio-Cortez?

Jacob Silverman

July 30, 2018

Does Ocasio-Cortez represent a dangerous tilt leftward—or is she an inspiring augur of the Democratic Party’s future?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 27, 2018

Lies, damned lies, and corn puff products

Rites of Power

Hannah Gais

July 26, 2018

Prince Charles's spiritual odyssey has been a sort of materialist schizophrenia.

Of Many Minds

Hawa Allan

July 26, 2018

Asad Haider on why identity politics is both a source of awareness and division, a boon and a burden for the left.

Mapping the Face of War

The Nostalgia Trap

July 25, 2018

Bhakti Shringarpure is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Warscapes, an online magazine.

The Queer Art of Failing Better

Laurie Penny

July 24, 2018

Queer Eye for the capitalism-damaged and toxically masculine.

Revolutionaries for Hire

Mattia Salvia

July 24, 2018

On May 1 I went out to the Worker’s Day parade in Milan. It was supposed to be a day of unity and celebration. Instead, I saw people who shared the same political culture and almost the same political affiliation clash violently over the Syrian flags they were waving: the ...

Mermaid Mania

Nora Caplan-Bricker

July 23, 2018

Samantha Hunt's

Jacked Up

Chris Lehmann

July 23, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Today's right-wing Russia collusion looks a lot like yesterday's Abramoff entanglements.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 20, 2018

Burn, Burberry, burn!

Don’t Let Them Win

Maximillian Alvarez

July 20, 2018

The Poverty of Theory

Politics is endless war; silence will not protect you.

Et tu, Boris?

Rivkah Brown

July 20, 2018

Like a hastily constructed IKEA Hemnes, the UK’s Cabinet is falling apart again. It all kicked off two weeks ago, when Theresa May invited ministers on a weekend jaunt to her country residence Chequers to nail down a negotiating position on Brexit. By Monday morning, the jelly ...