We Are All at the Table Together
Sarah Jaffe interviews Autumn Zemke, co-chair of Northern Nevada Working Families Party.
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Techies and Tankies
Corey Pein discusses tankies with Michael Brooks and all things life-extending with Elmo Keep.
Sail Trimmers
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
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
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
If visual and conceptual artists were foundational to the Occupy Wall Street movement, what about novelists?
Holy Machiavels
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
Who benefits when tech CEOs meekly take their seats before Trump and indulge his inarticulate blather?
I Am Not a Fish Dating a Bird
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.
Preserve Yourself!
“All Eyez on Me” is the world's first superhero hagiography hologram biopic of black musical mortality.
Voting Off the Apprentice President
June 19, 2017
A Trump impeachment would demonstrate to voters that the Democratic Party’s days of coddling the rich and powerful are over.
Weekly Bafflements
June 16, 2017
TODAY IN CASH MONEY
Congressional Democrats are taking Trump to court. Will anything come of it? As Zephyr Teachout told The Baffler’s own Dave Denison in January, probably not.
FOR OUR MEMORY-CHALLENGED FRIENDS
An American lobbyist for Russian interests has come ...