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Daily Bafflements
June 27, 2016
• “A lot of people still think they just voted in a referendum on immigration. What’s more, they think they won,” writes Abi Wilkinson on Brexit, over at Vox. “The problem isn’t necessarily that 52 percent of  voters agree with ...

Neither Great Nor British
June 24, 2016
I went to bed smugly satisfied last night after UK Independence Party leader and charmless performative drunk Nigel Farage conceded defeat. It seemed Britain had hung together and voted to Remain in the European Union after all. I woke up to a different reality. The Leave ...

The Art of the Con
Just as in the final chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray, the wheezing sociopath at the center of the Donald Trump campaign has revealed his true decrepit, disfigured nature at a moment when the belated appearance of the unvarnished truth likely will do zero good for any of ...

Daily Bafflements
June 22, 2016
• Donald Trump may have built the Evangelical advisory board he so desperately needs, but his efforts to woo the Christian community are still lagging. That said, it’s impressive he managed to get Jerry Falwell Jr. to pose in front of ...

Daily Bafflements
June 20, 2016
• It’s world refugee day, the day we briefly recall the 65 million people on the planet who are displaced. Astra Taylor travelled to Greece on the day the EU-Turkey refugee deal went into effect and reported back in The Baffler, no. 31. Liberals ...

Daily Bafflements
June 17, 2016
• After you read about how Moon Juice exec Amanda Chantal Bacon eats—between dropping her toddler Rohan off at school and Kundalini yoga in Venice, that is—you may need to cleanse by reading Heather Havrilesky’s new essay on “the foodie devolution” in our ...

Not Intended for Mature Audiences
Yes, Donald Trump is once more laying into the media establishment that somehow attacks and slanders him while also acting as the premier delivery system for the bigoted ego rampages that the weary electorate has come to know as Trumpism. The invective-spewing maestro of ...

Daily Bafflements
June 15, 2016
• Today, in lawsuits: Peter Thiel’s lawyer-for-hire has decided to intervene in the wake of a Gawker investigation into Donald Trump’s mysterious hairdo. Delving into the origins of Trump’s gravity-defying coiffure is, ...

Daily Bafflements
June 13, 2016
• Microsoft has bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. If you’re scratching your head at how a jobs site that rarely provides any actual opportunities has continued to be worth anything to anyone, perhaps Ann Friedman’s read on the cultural resonance of ...