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Pity the Conservative Consumer Watchdog

Zoë Beery

December 20, 2018

They deserve no sympathy for their awful views, but values voters are right to whine: almost no one wants their money.

Waste Not, Want Not

Madeleine Wattenbarger

December 19, 2018

If the Zero Waste movement wants to move beyond green environmentalism, it has to get off Instagram and into the world.

Built to Flail

Ben Schwartz

December 18, 2018

Woe to any comedian tapped to host the humorphobic White House Correspondents' Dinner or the Oscars.

Sleeping Rough in the Mattress Economy

Ed Burmila

December 17, 2018

We've lowered the bar of aspirational living from condos to mattresses.

Beyond Relief

Robert Raymond

December 17, 2018

A new network of mutual aid centers across Puerto Rico wants to do more than provide disaster relief—it wants to build a movement.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 14, 2018

ICE is Making a List, Checking it Twice

Semper Bye

Josh Fruhlinger

December 14, 2018

Trump Trading Cards

Now that John Kelly's on his way out of the White House, a closer look at the asshole in General's clothing.

Not How the Internet Happened

Bradley Babendir

December 14, 2018

A new history of the internet succumbs to hagiography and subservient yarn-spinning.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Prosecutions

Paul Pelletier

December 12, 2018

Mueller is now preparing his report and the final charges against the remaining rogues gallery.

Streambait Pop

Liz Pelly

December 11, 2018

Downstream

Behold the emergence of streambait pop—the total Spotify genre.

Going in for the Shill

Tom Sexton

December 11, 2018

Joe Manchin, coal industry darling, cannot become become our bulwark against a nightmare future of rising, boiling seas.

Propaganda and the Pundit Mind

Chris Lehmann

December 10, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

The old WASP ruling class . . . those were the days, right?