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A Typical Wall Street Republican
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 ...

Daily Bafflements
April 21, 2017
• Today in tech: Elon Musk engages in some “consensual telepathy.” • The Juicegate saga continues. In case you haven’t been keeping up with the story of the century, the company that produces a $400 juicer called Juicero has been taking some flack ...

Daily Bafflements
April 17, 2017
• Bafflerites in D.C.! Come and join Barbara Ehrenreich, Rafia Zakaria, Dean Baker, and Hussein Ibish for a Tax Day appraisal of the Age of Trump so far. It’s free, and there will be drinks. • Since Rep. Steve King is tweeting his endorsement of Hungary’s far-right ...

Paul Ryan, Überwonk
April 17, 2017
Or, put it this way: Paul Ryan went out onto the tightrope. The crowd, so long adoring their golden child, cheered. But a jester got the best of Ryan.

Dilbert’s Revenge
The gospel of Scott Adams is one of mediocrity untroubled by humility, which means that now is the perfect time for him to make a comeback; the dangling toes of the zeitgeist are once again within his grasp. We’ve heard more about him lately than we have since CD-ROMs. Adams ...

Daily Bafflements
April 14, 2017
In case you thought our august republic was the only thing currently being ruined by Neo-Nazis, there’s also . . . this furry convention.