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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 13, 2022

Accountants Hate Me Because of This One Simple Trick! The cost of living isn’t just going up in the United States—an estimated 1.5 million households in the UK will struggle to pay their food and energy bills over the next year and a further 2.2 million individuals may ...

Travel Velocity

Rafia Zakaria

May 13, 2022

Alienated

As the tourists return, the environment reels.

Venus in Transit

Kyra Simone

May 13, 2022

Fiction

Short fiction by Kyra Simone.

The Long Crisis on Rikers Island

Brendan O’Connor

May 12, 2022

How New York City lost control of its most infamous jail complex.

A Violent Enterprise

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

May 11, 2022

British colonialism casts a long shadow over modern Nigeria.

Planet Bloomberg

Kevin Rogan

May 10, 2022

Examining the Bloomberg philanthropic machine.

War by Another Name

Joshua Craze

May 09, 2022

Sanctions achieve little politically, while bringing great harm to civilians.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 06, 2022

Back to the Future On Monday evening, a draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade leaked to the press, leading perennially aggrieved conservatives to celebrate the imminent, altogether assured success of a decades-long campaign to strip women of ...

Rich Moms, Poor Moms

Rafia Zakaria

May 06, 2022

Alienated

With Samantha’s power and Melinda’s money, poor women will be saved.

Working Landscapes

John Merrick

May 05, 2022

Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.

We Decide Our Own Fate

Jess McAllen

May 04, 2022

Two very different rallies for reproductive justice in New York.

Lost in the Supermarket

Rhian Sasseen

May 04, 2022

Browsing the literature of the grocery store