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General McMaster and the Miniskirts

Rafia Zakaria

August 24, 2017

Alienated

It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...

Élite Politesse

Kyle Paoletta

August 23, 2017

When, in 2012, the copy editor Mary Norris took to The New Yorker’s website to defend its comma usage against the charge that it was “nutty,” a new era in the history of the magazine’s style was inaugurated. Norris was suddenly impossible to escape, extemporizing on ...

The People’s Platform Goes to Washington

Sarah Jaffe

August 23, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

The President of Blank Sucking Nullity

David Roth

August 22, 2017

Any attempt at psychologizing Trump should begin and end here: he is a blank sucking void of vanity and appetite.

Hang the Landlord

Amber A’Lee Frost

August 22, 2017

Your Sorry Ass

I know you love him, but he treats his employees—and you—like shit, so he’s the bad guy.

The Eclipsing of Steve Bannon

Sam Kriss

August 21, 2017

The Horrordome

As the moon finally slides on past a wounded sun, the prophecy has been realised, and Bannon is transformed.

I Think Icahn, I Think Icahn . . .

J.C. Hallman

August 21, 2017

Our former casino owner of a president is doubling his wager after every political loss, and we’re all watching his stack of chips diminish exponentially.

Brain AWOL

Chris Lehmann

August 18, 2017

On the end—and endurance—of the Bannon era

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

August 18, 2017

Man, what a terrible week. Just an unrelenting deluge of morally bankrupt people parroting stupid opinions. Usually we round up a few good and funny things we read this week but honestly, everything is so fucking bad right now. So, here are some statues that are better than ...

After a Tragedy, the Ohio State Fair Endures

Hanif Abdurraqib

August 18, 2017

The Heart of It All

The fair—at the city, county, or state level—is one of the markers of summer, even long, difficult summers, and even if the fairs themselves occur in the fall. I have been to many: A small town fair in Virginia, the kind you see in nostalgia-drenched films where people in ...

Toppling Monuments to White Supremacy

Sarah Jaffe

August 18, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...

Dunce’s App

Audrey Watters

August 17, 2017

Behavior management apps are, in many ways, a culmination of B.F. Skinner's vision for “teaching machines.”