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The Baffler

August 12, 2022

Your Friends in Tech When the Supreme Court incinerated its vestigial claims to legitimacy earlier this summer with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, certain quarters of the internet resounded with inexplicable optimism about all the wondrous ways in which Big Tech would come ...

His Later Life and Works

Reid Sharpless

August 12, 2022

Fiction

Short fiction by Reid Sharpless.

Public Safety Dance

Wanda Bertram

August 11, 2022

Public “safety” for whom?

Poxed and Abandoned

Benjamin Weil

August 10, 2022

On the global response to the monkeypox outbreak.

Flooding in the Sacrifice Zone

Tarence Ray

August 09, 2022

Surveying the wreckage in flooded-out Eastern Kentucky.

Excavating the Internet

David Schurman Wallace

August 08, 2022

Studying the internet’s pre-history is interesting—but can it help us in the present?

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

August 05, 2022

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Zombie Death is not the end, nor is disability, injury, or the need to visit the bathroom any excuse to falter in your labor if you happen to be an Amazon warehouse employee. Where there is profit, there is life. In a grim preview of how our ...

Hard to Be a God

Joshua Craze

August 04, 2022

A new history of deification suggests that political power is always mythological.

Two Poems

Zakaria Mohammed

August 02, 2022

Poems From Palestine

I. I caught a glimpse of you as I ran. I had no time to stop and kiss your hand. The world was chasing me down like I was a thief and it was impossible for me to stop. If I had stopped I’d have been killed. But I caught a glimpse of you: your hand a stem of narcissus in a ...

Beyond the Frame

Rhian Sasseen

August 02, 2022

The forward-thinking sci-fi of Izumi Suzuki.

Big Beefing

John Kazior

August 01, 2022

Delusions of bovine sustainability.

Fresh Hell

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 ...