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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.
Scarborough, Fair
June 27, 2017
As Joe sings to Mika, “Look at the signs, these are terrible times.” Listening to the tortured-yet-bouncy testimony of Mystified, I believe.
Damage and Control
Earlier this month, America woke up to another mass shooting. The venue was a baseball field where members of the House GOP were practicing for the Congressional baseball game that was to be held that Friday. The target—or one of them at least—was House Majority whip ...
Waiting for Bitcoin
June 26, 2017
Bitcoin was never meant for the world; the world was meant to be refashioned in its image.
Anxiety Dream
June 26, 2017
We are fumbling around, trying to work out the role that sleep plays in a prosperous life.