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The Baffler

June 23, 2017

Will the revolution start at the mall? Regular contributor Sarah Jaffe takes an in-depth look at the oft-ignored retail sector. Dismissed as temporary and low-skilled, it may come as a surprise that retail workers are leading the charge on labor rights. No, we can’t all get ...

A Great, Soulless Get

Jason Linkins

June 23, 2017

Doughty conservative talk-radio eminence Hugh Hewitt has finally found a cable news suitor willing to formally put a ring on his finger.

After the Fire

Abi Wilkinson

June 23, 2017

It feels like a potential tipping point—where public opinion finally catches up with brutal reality.

We Are All at the Table Together

Sarah Jaffe

June 22, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Sarah Jaffe interviews Autumn Zemke, co-chair of Northern Nevada Working Families Party.

Techies and Tankies

Corey Pein

June 22, 2017

News from Nowhere

Corey Pein discusses tankies with Michael Brooks and all things life-extending with Elmo Keep.

Sail Trimmers

Chris Lehmann

June 22, 2017

The Jaundiced Eyeball

For the Atlantic, actual political agency, it seems, is a lesser virtue than the civic jolt proffered by a “mediating function.”

Juneteenth, From Atlanta to Oakland

Sarah Jaffe

June 21, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

To mark the day, and its unfulfilled promises, a group of organizers planned a day of action: of reclaiming vacant land, forty acres in forty cities to be precise.

Going Underground

Maximillian Alvarez

June 21, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

I marveled at the fact that, in such a seemingly short amount of time, socialism had become a mainstream rallying cry in America once again.

Austerity Gospel

Jonathon Sturgeon

June 21, 2017

The Immediate Experience

If visual and conceptual artists were foundational to the Occupy Wall Street movement, what about novelists?

Holy Machiavels

Dave Denison

June 20, 2017

When Christians get behind a leader like Trump, are they following Christ—or Machiavelli?

Summon Your Tech Kids to the White House Day

Jacob Silverman

June 20, 2017

The Future Sucked

Who benefits when tech CEOs meekly take their seats before Trump and indulge his inarticulate blather?

I Am Not a Fish Dating a Bird

G’Ra Asim

June 19, 2017

Referring to a romantic relationship as interracial today means framing it as a lever for power and access rather than an end unto itself.