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Who’s Afraid of the “Petextrian”?

Jordan Fraade

January 23, 2018

The “petextrian” is a preemptive attempt by automakers and their allies to invent a menace that’s a worthy successor to the jaywalker.

The Public Interest and the Public Offering

Chris Lehmann

January 22, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

Spielberg's The Post never goes beneath the surface of the media’s fraught relationship with power.

Frozen

Max B. Sawicky

January 22, 2018

The Trump junta has now reduced the bulk of the federal government to the activity level of the chief executive himself.

The Ovid of Loserdom

J.W. McCormack

January 22, 2018

In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 19, 2018

Now Entering: The Comfort ZoneTM Is the integrity of your spiritual being under assault in this frightful epoch of data mining and climate degradation? Do you wish you could attain, if only for a fleeting moment, a sense of mindfulness in the midst of this unending horror show? ...

Cops on Campus

Amber A’Lee Frost

January 19, 2018

Your Sorry Ass

This college campus stubbornly refuses to move past circa-2014 Twitter activism. What can I tell my friends to keep them from totally dropping out of any activist spaces?

The Year History Died

Maximillian Alvarez

January 18, 2018

The Poverty of Theory

In the battle over who gets to wield history’s power, if we continue to play by the assumption that history has “ended,” we will lose.

Carbon Omissions

Samuel Miller-McDonald

January 18, 2018

Your sparkling utopia is just dumb dust if non-carbon energy infrastructure is not a central pillar of your program. 

Radiating Racism

Rafia Zakaria

January 16, 2018

Alienated

Until we recognize our common humanity with the poor, it's a shithole world.

Faux-Pas at MOMA

Raad Rahman

January 16, 2018

I lined up at MOMA for a close-up view of how the brutal business of global garment-making was to be cleaned up for aesthetic presentation.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 12, 2018

Oprah Winfrey 4 Prez. Proving that the United States has learned almost nothing from electing a garbage bag full of shit and Filet-o-Fish  to its highest office, calls for talk show queen Oprah to seek the White House in 2020 started trending on Twitter before she’d even ...

Not a Revolution

Neda Semnani

January 11, 2018

For now, Iranians don’t seem to be telegraphing the need for or hunger to dismantle their government and rebuild it from the from the ground up.