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I’ll Be Watching You

Lauren Carroll Harris

July 10, 2018

This week, it finally dawned on the U.S. media that the China of now is the West of tomorrow, with a small but seedy collection of reports that the waking moments of millions of Chinese are monitored, policed, scanned and logged using artificial intelligence plugged into 200 ...

No Country of Civil Men

Chris Lehmann

July 09, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

The great hallelujah chorus of official liberal consensus has met the moral emergency of the Trump era with a bold message: Be nice. Be deferential. And if you must protest the multifront Trumpian assault on due process, basic government accountability, and virtually every other ...

HELLO, NEW YORK! STROUD CALLING!

Gordon Lish

July 06, 2018

Fiction

Gordon Lish takes a transatlantic call

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 06, 2018

We hold these truths to be full of shit.

A March For the Marchers

Rafia Zakaria

July 06, 2018

Alienated

Despite all their incipient good intentions, marches do not help undocumented immigrants.

Organizing on the DL

Amber A’Lee Frost

July 04, 2018

Your Sorry Ass

There are a lot of things you can do to fight ICE that would be less likely to expose you or your loved ones to surveillance.

The Last Temptation of Paul Schrader

Sam Thompson

July 04, 2018

The actor is powerless, caught in a net of deceit. Here we are again: predestination and grace.

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