Latest Posts

Web Exclusives

Parkland: Urgency and Insurgency

Jacob Silverman

February 26, 2018

Today's digital-savvy teens are wise in ways their elders are not—and they're not intimidated by trolling from the right.

The Midterms and the Turn Leftward

Sean McElwee

February 23, 2018

This year, Democrats will pick up a basket of seats, ranging from highly educated and upscale to working-class and rural.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 23, 2018

Let's play everyone's favorite game: Multimillionaire Quizzes Billionaire On Basic Grocery Prices!

Billy Graham’s Crusades

Chris Lehmann

February 23, 2018

Billy Graham steered clear of the complexities of the modern world and promised his followers serenity and salvation.

The Same F’ing Song

Niela Orr

February 22, 2018

Bread and Circuses

Protests of R. Kelly have returned. What comes next? A singer muted, or a continuation of the same f'ing song?

In Praise of Negative Reviews

Rafia Zakaria

February 21, 2018

Alienated

The tone and tenor of the contemporary book review is an advertisement-style frippery.

Fear of a Black Universe

Kaila Philo

February 21, 2018

Can Marvel's Black Panther carry the torch of Black radicalism?

Max Boot’s Vietnam

John Ganz

February 20, 2018

Edward Lansdale does not represent the “Road not Taken” in Vietnam, he is the crystallized essence of the willful blindness that led us there.

A Faster Horse?

Liza Featherstone

February 20, 2018

No one has been more lionized for his contempt for focus groups than Steve Jobs.

The Post-Text Hustle

Jonathon Sturgeon

February 19, 2018

The Immediate Experience

Newspapers are more prayer than prophecy; perhaps the aim of “Welcome to the Post-Text Future” is to make an offering to the gods of digital advertising.

The Tyranny of the Takes

Chris Lehmann

February 19, 2018

The Blessed and the Brightest

The real reason that Never Trumpers have the inside track to pundit posts in our papers of record is that a left-led Trump resistance is horrifying to them.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 16, 2018

What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant? From the ivy-clad brain trust of our elite universities comes an innovative proposition: the Visas Between Individuals Program, in which Americans can sponsor an immigrant in order to extract their labor at below minimum wage rates, ...