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Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

August 04, 2017

Release the tapes Despite David Frum’s pearl clutching over our precious norms, it should be obvious to anyone that the deluge of leaks coming from this administration is a good thing. In the New Republic, Brian Beutler lays out an argument that embarrassment over leaks might ...

Emboldened Fight for Health Care as a Right

Sarah Jaffe

August 04, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the U.S. 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 what it is ...

Sweet, Sweet Phantasy

Tom Whyman

August 03, 2017

Corbyn supporters have chosen the playful magic of phantasy over the reality principle, and it's starting to work.

Over Our Heads

Dave Denison

August 03, 2017

I was wandering in a smoldering landscape, knowing that nothing could be done. The decisions had been made.

Media for the Apocalypse

Corey Pein

August 02, 2017

News from Nowhere

Corey scopes out the far-right media landscape, from AmRen to Infowars, with Jason Wilson.

Cogito Zero Sum

Maximillian Alvarez

August 02, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

We're beholden to essentialist, Cartesian thinking about our selves—it's balkanizing opinion.

Ode to the Liberal Muslim

Rafia Zakaria

August 01, 2017

Alienated

A community under siege threatens to become a community in stasis, inching toward stagnation.

Wack Political Economy

Max B. Sawicky

August 01, 2017

The real conflict in the White House is the remarkable tussle between Trump and his attorney-general, Jeff Sessions.

In Defense of the Money Phone

Niela Orr

July 31, 2017

Bread and Circuses

JAY-Z has come out against the ostentatious kitsch of rap’s nouveau riche. We prefer the money phone.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

July 28, 2017

“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock” The best read of the week, and quite possibly our lifetimes, is this batshit insane Ryan Lizza piece recounting a conversation with Anthony Scaramucci. If you somehow missed it, well, buckle up because it’s ...

Shrinking the President

Sam Kriss

July 28, 2017

The Horrordome

You sit the President of the United States down on a nice little chair, and he sprawls there, and he talks to you.

The Opioid Thief

Amber A’Lee Frost

July 27, 2017

Your Sorry Ass

Your friend’s bride-to-be may be stealing your wife’s painkillers. Your best bet is to lock ‘em up.