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International Man of Monocracy

Josh Fruhlinger

August 03, 2018

Trump Trading Cards

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

Aaron Miguel Cantú

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

Amar Diwakar

August 02, 2018

Too long ignored, Rabindranath Tagore's writings offer a powerful alternative in an age of nativist ressentiment.

The Permanent Vacationer

Amber A’Lee Frost

August 01, 2018

Your Sorry Ass

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

Niela Orr

August 01, 2018

Bread and Circuses

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America? and the legacy of the macho prank show.

Seizing Socialism’s Moment

The Nostalgia Trap

July 31, 2018

We don’t have a very visible fighting feminist movement in the way that we’ve had in the past.

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.