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The Silence of the Burbs

Stephen Kearse

December 07, 2017

The burbs have inspired iconic horrors in the past, from shopping zombies to mechanized housewives, so why does suburban gothic in 2017 lack oomph?

White Knight Syndrome

Niela Orr

December 05, 2017

Bread and Circuses

FBI agents Dale Cooper and James Comey are throwbacks to an idyllic past. They should stay there.

K Street Taxpocalypse

Max B. Sawicky

December 04, 2017

Neglect founded on hypocrisy regarding the deficit implications of giant tax cuts is not new for the GOP.

Reading like a Bureaucrat

Merve Emre

December 04, 2017

“Perhaps it is just as well that writers do not have political power,” wrote Steinbeck after receiving ideas from Faulkner.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 01, 2017

This motherfucker’s name is CHAZ. Novelist Emma Cline has a shitty ex-boyfriend who puts our shitty ex-boyfriends to shame. This shitty ex-boyfriend hired a shitty lawyer to do incredibly shitty things. Hopefully both the shitty ex and the shitty lawyer get ...

Show Workers the Money!

Sarah Jaffe

December 01, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...

Sucking Up to the Saudis

Rafia Zakaria

November 30, 2017

Alienated

Thomas Friedman imagines a Saudi-led moderation, yet militant protests in Pakistan suggest otherwise.

Paradise Tossed

Jessa Crispin

November 30, 2017

Stephen Greenblatt’s new book blames everything on Adam and Eve, but not in a religious way.

The Precocious Socialist

Amber A’Lee Frost

November 29, 2017

Your Sorry Ass

High school is a noise opera of capitalist blathering. It sort of gets better?

Administering Evil

Maximillian Alvarez

November 29, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

The modern neoliberal university has no solid answer for someone like Richard Spencer.

The Longest Miles

James White

November 28, 2017

I convinced myself of an extreme position, that the miles racket could be manipulated to turn the tables on the free market.

Pets or Livestock?

Chris Lehmann

November 27, 2017

The Blessed and the Brightest

Anthony Levandowski's AI church, the Way of the Future, reminds us that the Silicon Valley power elite is utterly beguiled with gnosticism.