Battle of the Brands
The Trump-CNN feud has nothing to do with the conduct of journalism, and everything to do with brand positioning.
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Bafflersplainer: Win the Future
Our democracy will achieve its final form when legislation is drafted by a solar-powered calculator wearing a turtleneck.
The Coronation of Macron
July 05, 2017
Anglophone centrist pundits' newfound Francophilia is a symptom of the epidemic of escapism ravaging the Third Way intellectual establishment.
Going Deeper Underground
It had never occurred to me that las chismosas (gossips, big mouths) would even enter discussions about left political organizing.
Nail Art Power
TNT's new show ”Claws” privileges rebellious and resourceful art made in an all-female space.
Weekly Bafflements
June 30, 2017
After Piketty it’s the after-party
First up, our very own editor Chris Lehmann read a book titled The Wisdom of Money and it went as well as you might expect. It seems that if this “book can teach us anything, it’s that, as fathomlessly wise as our market may be, it ...
The Poor Under Attack
Welfare rights activists never stopped fighting for their rights, and many are backing a bill called the RISE Out of Poverty Act.
An Oasis of Horror in an Internet of Boredom
June 29, 2017
Those who claim that the new right-wing sensibility online today is just more of the same old right are wrong.
A Brief, Cheesy Interlude
I know how writing about cheese in these urgent times might seem like a waste of column inches . . .
Breaking up the Boys’ Club
Your friend has a new girlfriend. So what? Stop worrying about your little boys' club and grow the fuck up.
Fiction without Women
June 28, 2017
In the fiction of Haruki Murakami, female characters are presented as the vanishing vessels of a male future.
The Speaker and the Ironworker
Sarah Jaffe interviews Randy Bryce, ironworker, veteran, dad, cancer survivor—and Paul Ryan’s opponent in the 1st Congressional district.