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Daily Bafflements
July 28, 2014
• Today in Billionaires: Vincent Mehdizadeh, the inventor of a marijuana vending machine, has become legal weed’s first billionaire; read Adweek‘s interview with Mehdizadeh, in which he insists on referring to pot as “the medicine.” • Today in ...

The Baffler’s Week That Was
July 25, 2014
What a Week This Was, Bafflers. By now you have probably noticed that we launched our brand new website featuring all 25 issues of our head-spinning salvos, which you can browse by issue or search through using this handy dandy index. So for the first time all in one place, ...

Tax Inversions and the Dems Who Love Them
July 25, 2014
Corporations are people, my friend. Just like human people, they will go to absurd lengths to reduce their income-tax liability, and just like human people, they can move to another country if the one they live in doesn’t suit them. So in that sense, when the generic drug ...

Daily Bafflements
July 25, 2014
• Here is a tale of a journalist and a programmer who set out to make an interactive graphic of diversity in top editorial positions in American newsrooms, and failed. “As it turns out, there isn’t really enough data to make an interactive graphic about ...

Why Aetna Should Pay Reparations
July 24, 2014
“This is a civil rights bill—this is reparations,” Rush Limbaugh said of the Affordable Care Act back in 2010. As you might expect, he didn’t mean it in a good way. Limbaugh’s ability to condemn the Civil Rights Act and reparations in a single breath is an achievement ...

Daily Bafflements
July 24, 2014
• Today in Billionaires, from the Guardian: The UK’s National Union of Journalists has dubbed Richard Desmond “Britain’s Greediest Billionaire” after the media company he owns proposed to cut a third of all editorial staffers from the Daily Express, ...

Geoff Dyer’s Idle Days at Sea
July 23, 2014
Over the arc of his long career, Geoff Dyer has cultivated a certain style. If reviews are to be believed, his carefully crafted technique is a higher achievement than the substance of his books themselves. In his latest book, we finally see its limitations, as we watch the book ...

Daily Bafflements
July 23, 2014
•  “The City of New York approved a proposal by one of the largest real estate developers in the city to build in a ‘poor door’, or a separate door for residents living in affordable housing to enter their building,” writes the Daily Mail from New York Post ...

Daily Bafflements
July 22, 2014
• The Reports Are In: “With four out of five pet owners considering their pet a member of the family and 79% saying the quality of their pet’s food is as important as their own, it’s not surprising that the premium sector accounted for 40% of the $26 billion U.S. pet ...

Welcome to Our New Website
July 21, 2014
Well, when The Baffler was born in 1988, we never could have foreseen this #innovation, but here we are. Please enjoy this new and uncharacteristically shiny iteration of The Baffler online—featuring not only our new issue (no. 25, “The None and the Many”), but also, for ...

Your Guide to Fourth-Wave Feminist Underwear
July 21, 2014
When Orwell wrote about language that gives “the appearance of solidarity to pure wind,” he could as well have been talking about the product labels that attract a certain kind of modern consumer. Organic. Fair trade. Local. Ethical. Buy this, and you not only will ...