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We’re Living in The Thick of It

Ned Resnikoff

July 24, 2017

While no Trump administration official can match Malcolm Tucker’s wit, they can certainly equal his vulgarity.

Spicer, Racked

Jason Linkins

July 21, 2017

There’s no real need to speak of Spicer’s legacy in complicated terms. He was not good.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

July 21, 2017

It has been a very long week.

More Mush from the Taste Police

Chris Lehmann

July 20, 2017

The Jaundiced Eyeball

The first noteworthy paradox in the taste-policing racket is that it’s a singularly lucrative and prestigious one.

Laboring Academia

Maximillian Alvarez

July 20, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

Universities claim graduate teaching and research aren’t worthy of the designation of “work.” It’s high time graduate employees called their bluff.

Bridging the Healthcare Divide in West Virginia

Sarah Jaffe

July 19, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

“Coal is king.” Or was. Coal is on the ropes right now.

The Online Culture Wars

Corey Pein

July 19, 2017

News from Nowhere

Corey Pein chats about online right-wing movements with writer and academic Angela Nagle.

The Great Lakes Avengers vs. The Crumbling Cities of the Coast

Hanif Abdurraqib

July 18, 2017

The Heart of It All

The dominant superhero narrative, at least in its current form, often depends on a metropolis at risk. Whether fictional or real, present or past, a city crumbling in on itself is what’s at stake. A city that seems like one you might love someone inside of, or a city that ...

The Tarot of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Michelle García

July 18, 2017

What happens when one of the world’s biggest cult icons finds himself in the New York art world? Not psychomagic.

Sméagol in the Sky

Ben Schwartz

July 17, 2017

“Suck-ass Delta” Coulter fumed on Twitter, calling Delta’s gate people and flight attendants “Nurse Ratchets.”

Retirement, Brought to You by Prisons, Inc.

Whitney Curry Wimbish

July 17, 2017

American workers support private prisons through their retirement funds.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

July 14, 2017

What do rich people and cockroaches have in common? Honestly, lots of things, but in this case it’s the ability to survive a nuclear apocalypse. Over at The New Republic, John Carl Baker looks at the trend of luxury bunkers and how, even at the end of the world, the ...