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Daily Bafflements
March 24, 2017
• Variety reports that actress Brie Larson will play Victoria Woodhull in an upcoming film. Woodhull, dutiful Baffler readers will note, was the first woman candidate for the American presidency (in 1872, forty years before women won the right to vote), and her exploits ...

If All You Have Is a Hammer
When you sign up, allegedly, to fight for freedom and democracy and you see nothing of that kind being practiced here in the United States, with the mass surveillance and the reach of agencies like the National Security Agency, etc., this is not what you put your life on the ...

The Two Daves
Critics and comedy fans laud Dave Chappelle for his analysis of American race and social relations, yet his finest skill might be the way he manipulates time on the stand-up stage. You see it first in obvious ways—as, for example, in the contrast between his deliberate joke ...

Open Mike
March 23, 2017
It is with a heavy heart that I must report that Huckabee is at it again. That is, the ex-governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has tweeted a new joke. Over the last year, Huckabee has gained a reputation as one Twitter’s high-profile joke writers. “High profile,” I should ...

Critique in the Age of Trump
The world has, in many ways, become exponentially weirder and more unpredictable in the age of Trump. And this core set of derangements demand more imaginative and radical modes of thinking. Nevertheless, the forces of resistance share a natural, troubling impulse to fall back ...

Daily Bafflements
March 20, 2017
As the Trump campaign’s links to Russia are finally investigated by the FBI, it's worth reading Yasha Levine's salvo “From Russia, with Panic,” in which he wrote about how the Democratic party and the media media signed off on the findings of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity ...

Daily Bafflements
March 17, 2017
Oh to be a fascist conservative pundit today. The possibilities, it seems, are endless. Here’s a few of our favorite right-wing revelations from the last few days: • Among Richard Spencer’s greatest hits is the dismissal of black Americans’ contributions with the ...

So Much Bigger Than Standing Rock
The way that the camp started, first of all, was with the youth. They had a vision and a goal and a dream because of the fact that suicide rates in our communities are so high. It is so devastating that so many kids would rather kill themselves than deal with the hurt and the ...

Trump Trolls the Welfare State
March 17, 2017
The document released last Wednesday by the White House bears no resemblance to most budget documents of days gone by. It’s more like the last minute delivery of a late term paper by some sleep-deprived undergraduate. The text has been scanned into a PDF file, rather than ...