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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 02, 2022

Bouncing Powder, Ski Equipment, Bolivian Marching Dust . . . Given all the despicable policy and crocodile tears Republicans have unloosed on their behalf, it’s about time babies began paying out. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on the Texas-Mexico border ...

I Got Hurt Feelings

Marlowe Granados

September 02, 2022

Designs for Living

In DESIGNS FOR LIVING, columnist Marlowe Granados dispenses sound advice in a noisy world. Send your rants and pleas to [email protected] for Marlowe’s consideration.   Marlowe, I’m twenty-one years old and have had the worst ...

The Despotism of Isaias Afewerki

Alex de Waal

September 02, 2022

Eritrea’s dictator makes his move on Tigray.

Portrait of the Artist as a Grown Man

Anthony Domestico

September 01, 2022

On T. S. Eliot’s later years.

Decommodify This!

Leijia Hanrahan

August 31, 2022

Decommodify housing now!

Mother Knows Best

Bekah Waalkes

August 30, 2022

The anti-work novel gets a maternal twist.

Everyone’s a Critic

John Merrick

August 25, 2022

A radical tradition of cultural critique is at risk of extinction.

Hell, or Catalonia

Adrian Nathan West

August 24, 2022

Catalan separatism under the microscope.

Chronicles of Deaths Foretold

Artur Domosławski

August 23, 2022

Found in Translation

The military’s extrajudicial killings in Colombia.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

August 19, 2022

Dark Fate Has the planet Earth always been an inhospitable hell pit, or have we merely become more articulate in enumerating its horrors? Researchers in the Gulf of Mexico have discovered a new monster with eleven spines clearly up to no good as it waits out man’s mass ...

Ailing Empire Blues

Jed Esty

August 18, 2022

Can America avoid Britain’s post-imperial fate of never-ending culture war?

Digital Deconversion

Scout Brobst

August 17, 2022

Becoming an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, online.