Hell is for Other People
May 24, 2018
Come Sunday considers the price of self-doubt.
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Of Damages and Dog Whistles
These are your coworkers, and you can address their racism subtly and without scolding them.
Vanity Foul
May 22, 2018
One hundred years after the puff piece floated into our consciousness, it is being swept aside by a new kind of celebrity profile.
#churchtoo
May 21, 2018
With #churchtoo, Christian women are calling out sexual assault and coercion, too.
Fresh Hell
May 18, 2018
The odyssey of Big Blue, the favored blue dildo of Mountainside, New Jersey’s 2014 “Cop of the Year."
The Long View in Granada
A mosque rises in Granada. And in this place once known for a mingling of religions tensions sometimes rise, too.
Dendrophile Diplomacy
May 18, 2018
Like someone with a cat allergy as incurable as their love of cats, the Queen brings my dad out in a rash. So overwhelmed with joy is he when he sees his monarch that he promptly bursts into tears. Official birthdays, Queen’s speeches, London Fashion Week—he’s hysterical. ...
Give Me Liberty or Something Else
May 17, 2018
CalExit gets all the headlines, but the stubborn New England states are home to plenty of secessionist tendencies, too.
Antifascism and the Left’s Fear of Power
May 16, 2018
This article has been adapted from a talk delivered at Purdue University on April 18, 2018, hosted by the Purdue chapter of the Campus Antifascist Network.
In the United States today people tend to squirm with profound discomfort, if not sneer with outright revulsion, when they ...
Giuliani’s Pooch
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 at The Baffler are here to help! As a wise man once told my father while trying to sell ...
Othering the Godman
May 14, 2018
The only thing "Wild Wild Country" leaves out is the entirety of the Indian side of the story.
The Swamp Thickens
Michael Cohen learned the rent-seeking style of grifting at the foot of the Master.