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Twilight of the Racist Uncles

Ed Burmila

October 30, 2018

Younger users aren’t ditching Facebook because of Alex Jones, but because listening to all of America’s uncles at once is our literal nightmare.

Having it Both Ways

David Neiwert

October 30, 2018

Both sides don’t do it—not when it comes to political violence in America.

Firing Lines

Chris Lehmann

October 29, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Our morally inert media complex supplies alibis for right-wing terror.

Bolsonaro Rising

Alex Hochuli

October 29, 2018

Brazil, the world’s fourth-largest democracy has elected a neofascist as president.

Fresh Hell

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 ...