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March 17, 2016
• While mourning the death of so-called constitutional “originalist” Antonin Scalia, the GOP has, as promised, completely ignored the Second Article, refusing their “advice and consent” to new Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. Mitch McConnell ...

The Breitbart Betrayals
There aren’t many hard-and-fast rules left in the grand digital Guignol of political journalism but, without question, a central organizing principle should be the old dictum of the schoolyard: when a bully pushes you, you push back. However, over at Breitbart ...

Daily Bafflements
March 16, 2016
• They live in New York City. They’re underemployed. One of them is a huge Phish fan. Given that (and Bernie Sanders’s roaring popularity with millennials—even female ones), isn’t it just a little surprising that Ilana and Abbi from Comedy Central’s “Broad ...

A Very Rubio Ending
Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an election season. To that end, The Baffler has employed expert comic mind David Rees to give a visual rendering of the day’s signature political ...

Daily Bafflements
March 15, 2016
• American Rifleman, the NRA magazine that has a history of advertising products described as “survivalist snake oil,” is running sponsored content that ghoulishly targets the victims of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan: Read Jacob Silverman’s grim ...

Daily Bafflements
March 14, 2016
• As British chancellor George Osborne indicates—yet again!—that he is making cuts to benefits for the disabled, we roll out contributing editor David Graeber’s salvo from issue 30. In “Despair Fatigue” David sees an end to the ...

Daily Bafflements
March 11, 2016
• ICYMI: “Let us now address the greatest American mystery at the moment: what motivates the supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump?” So begins founding editor Thomas Frank’s latest for The Guardian. Though white, working class ...

Daily Bafflements
March 10, 2016
• Baffler contributing editor Astra Taylor reports on “the troubling intersection between higher education and high finance” over at The Nation. And it’s not just Harvard she’s talking about: in the wake of state funding cuts, more and more public ...

Straight Out of Centrist Casting
Say what you will about this demented presidential election cycle—it has, at a minimum, forced the myths of Beltway centrism out into gloriously open view. The meme that has lately captured the responsible commentariat is not that the rise of Donald Trump represents the ...

Daily Bafflements
March 09, 2016
• Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders threw pollsters and pundits for a loop last night in Michigan by winning the state’s Democratic primary when everyone and their mother (literally, this author’s mother) thought it was impossible—or at the very ...

Daily Bafflements
March 08, 2016
• Say “hullo” to our thirtieth issue, a breezy look at the collective panic afflicting the nation in election year! As John Summers writes, “Sober pundits intone, how do we balance liberty and security, freedom and security? We? Balance?  The ...