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The Baffler

July 29, 2022

Monkey See, Monkey Do Not that long after our vindictive patriarch in the sky created Adam on, as some have determined, October 23 at 5 a.m. EST in 4004 BCE, God must have ascertained that our sorry species would accomplish little of lasting value. In the thousands of years ...

Questions, Questions, Questions

Marlowe Granados

July 29, 2022

Designs for Living

A good conversation partner is hard to find.

Hardwickian

Greg Gerke

July 28, 2022

The Uncollected Essays shows us another Elizabeth Hardwick.

Raging for the World That Is

Francesca Wade

July 27, 2022

Muriel Rukeyser’s political activities were inextricable from her literary experimentation.

Who Profits?

Justin H. Vassallo

July 25, 2022

How nonprofits became vehicles for programs shaped and approved by capital.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 22, 2022

Dream a Little Dream It’s clear to all observers that the American Dream, that grim fantasy of cookie-cutter comfort, has come in for a beating in recent decades, in no small part due to the fact that housing prices have shot up over 260 percent since 1980, while the ...

The Prosperous Migrants

Rafia Zakaria

July 22, 2022

Alienated

Today’s digital nomads can often work from a seaside cantina.

Sexual Rights, Sexual Wrongs

Emily Janakiram

July 22, 2022

On Amia Srinivasan’s “The Right to Sex.”

Prelude to a Redeployment

Amanda Sperber

July 21, 2022

Listening for signs of the Americans in Kismayo, Somalia.

True Colors

Luise Mörke

July 20, 2022

Aura has become one of the internet’s favorite ways of rendering personality.

Going Beyond the Law

Gaby Del Valle

July 20, 2022

The movement for reproductive justice cannot afford to turn the other cheek.

El Alto Chronicles

Ruxandra Guidi

July 18, 2022

Quya Reyna is a young Aymara writer who casts a light urban indigeneity in Bolivia.