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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 10, 2023

Two in the Bush In a week that saw America seized by spy-balloon fever, a toxic chemical cloud escape from a train to bedevil the residents of suburban Ohio, and the pre-Psychic Network song catalog of Dionne Warwick blast from car stereos in remembrance of Burt Bacharach, ...

The Fourth Person

Adam Cavanaugh

February 10, 2023

Fiction

A truth worth seeking, not beyond the grave but within it.

Big Play

John Semley

February 09, 2023

Fantasy football has become more than just big business.

The Politics of Memory

Gábor Schein

February 08, 2023

Found in Translation

Against Viktor Orbán’s gaming of history.

Line in the Sand

Kate Wagner

February 07, 2023

Hypocrisy in the city-state of the future.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 03, 2023

The Importance of Being Concise After another cruel turn of the old Gregorian, we once again find ourselves stranded in the month of February, which is the official month of grapefruits, bird feeding, hot breakfast, snack foods, children’s dental health, embroidery, and ...

In Rocinante’s Stirrups

Julia Kornberg

February 02, 2023

Rereading the diaries of Che Guevara.

Summer Freeze

Eileen G’Sell

February 01, 2023

Fertility tourism could mean that countries like Spain prioritize foreign women over their own citizens.

A Good Death

Kristen Martin

January 31, 2023

Instruction manuals for living written by the dying.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

January 27, 2023

Robofop The tech world is already a burrow of shady borrowings, competing patents, and dodgy dot-com schemes, but these iniquities have so far been within the domain of the human. Enter CNET’s AI reporter, which has been found to have plagiarized the work of journalists at ...

Fisting at the End of the World

Will Harrison

January 26, 2023

On the trailblazing pornographer Fred Halsted.

For the Public Good

Carlos Ortega Arámburo

January 25, 2023

On Mexico’s history of overzealous public works.