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No Really, You Don’t Need a Weatherman

The Nostalgia Trap

July 03, 2018

The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...

Projections of Melania

Tom Carson

July 02, 2018

The left’s most persistent—and giddiest—Melania fantasy: that she’s secretly one of us, can’t stand Trump either, and will go rogue one glorious day.

The Border and the American Imagination

Michelle García

July 02, 2018

“Immigration crisis” ignores the fact that “fighting Mexicans” is essential to the construction of the United States and its identity—and the culture of violence it celebrates.

American Jekyll, American Hyde

Jonathon Sturgeon

June 29, 2018

The Immediate Experience

How the civility police attempt to make us partners in Trump's politics of chaos and domination.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 29, 2018

What cheese wheels we so proudly hail’d

Trump’s Baby-Cager

Josh Fruhlinger

June 28, 2018

Trump Trading Cards

Stephen Miller told a high school classmate, “I can’t be your friend any more because you are Latino.”

Immigration and the Carceral State

The Nostalgia Trap

June 27, 2018

The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...

Brown Existence Anxiety

Rafia Zakaria

June 26, 2018

Alienated

It never leaves me, this paranoia borne of being brown and female, immigrant and Muslim in the age of Trump. It is with me while I am waiting to have my blood drawn at a clinic and the two plump white grandmothers switch from talking about their grandchildren to how they like ...

Reimagining the Middle Class

Ann Neumann

June 26, 2018

We need to reimagine what it means to be successful, what it means to be middle class.

They Want New Blood

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

June 25, 2018

Is the Suraj Patel campaign offering progressive politics as sanitized global design?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 22, 2018

“I’m from Cleveland. I like TGI Fridays.”

Comrades at Arms

Amber A’Lee Frost

June 21, 2018

Your Sorry Ass

The issue is that after college, my friend started working for one the largest U.S. arms manufacturers!