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The Baffler

September 22, 2017

“Can jokes bring down governments?” For Frieze, our own Jonathon Sturgeon wrote about the failures of protest art under Trump. “The election of Donald Trump was a traumatic event, but it does not justify protest art that bears the precise legibility and perishability of ...

Stormbound

Sarah Gerard

September 22, 2017

Never in fifty years of living in the Sunshine State had they seen anything like Irma.

Swords Into Marketshare

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

September 21, 2017

What if we had an LGBT movement that centered on getting trans people—and everyone else—out of prison, instead of into the military?

The Fatberg Cometh

Sam Kriss

September 21, 2017

The Horrordome

On September 4, Princess Catherine announced her third child. It took eight days. By September 12, a titanic fatberg had been found under London.

Total Attention Deficit

Amber A’Lee Frost

September 20, 2017

Your Sorry Ass

You've reached attention span zero? Log off, take a breath, and read a printed object.

The Jihadist Personal Essay

Rafia Zakaria

September 20, 2017

Alienated

The personal essay survives, it has simply moved house. Its new and surprising habitat is the jihadist magazine.

The Past Is a Foreign Agent

J.W. McCormack

September 19, 2017

The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.

A Wonk on the Wild Side

Chris Lehmann

September 18, 2017

The Blessed and the Brightest

Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" is less a campaign postmortem than a wonk’s lament.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

September 15, 2017

Steve Bannon loves two things: racism and layering.

An Uneven Disaster

Zachariah Webb

September 15, 2017

A Q&A with Ashley Dawson, author of "Extreme Cities."

Tragic Kingdom

Niela Orr

September 14, 2017

Bread and Circuses

HBO’s The Deuce traces exploitation in the porn industry back to 1970s Times Square—before its total Disneyfication.

Mark Lilla’s Comfort Zone

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

September 14, 2017

How liberal discourse flattens out the work of critical race analysis.