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A Letter to my Liberal Friends

Laurie Penny

August 15, 2017

War of Nerves

It should not have taken this long. Right now, there are a lot of well-meaning people, people who desperately want to believe in their own goodness, who only opened their eyes to the reality of modern fascism when the world woke up to Nurembergian images of screaming white boys ...

Goodbye, Pepe

Angela Nagle

August 15, 2017

The alt-right era my book was about—the anonymous online trolling culture, the constant evasions and ironic styles—is over.

Mind Out of Time

Siddhartha Deb

August 15, 2017

Contraband

The work of Urdu writer Naiyer Masud depicts a world of fading aristocrats and the drifting poor.

Thwarting a “United Right” in Charlottesville

Sarah Jaffe

August 14, 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 ...

New People, Old Words

Niela Orr

August 14, 2017

Bread and Circuses

Danzy Senna’s hilarious New People honors the canon of American works that take on multiracial identity.

The Long Battle for Medicaid

Sarah Jaffe

August 11, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

A conversation with Sarah Christopherson

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

August 11, 2017

Some good stories that we didn't publish.

Art After Social Collapse

Jonathon Sturgeon

August 10, 2017

The Immediate Experience

The belief that art should become therapeutic, or that it should devote itself to comfort, is everywhere in society.

Who’s Afraid of Hostile Love?

Amber A’Lee Frost

August 09, 2017

Your Sorry Ass

Your friends, a couple, won’t stop fighting? Don’t become the third wheel on a tricycle of romantic hatred.

The Norwegians Who Mistook Their Bus Seats for Muslims

Sam Kriss

August 09, 2017

The Horrordome

The enemy is hiding, building its armies, gathering its strength, in the most terrifying place possible: in non-existence.

Malign Intervention

Vincent Bevins

August 08, 2017

We aren't the good guys that sometimes make mistakes. We are often the bad guys.

Al Gore’s Pivot to Idiocy

Matthew Miles Goodrich

August 07, 2017

Gore is constitutionally incapable of telling a story that is resonant with Americans who have had futures set to flame.