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The Baffler

June 17, 2022

Got Milk? The children are our future, which is why, in this maniacally self-destructive country, we routinely subject them to mass slaughter; allow millions of them to live in wretched, soul-crushing poverty; poison them with lead; propagandize them to within an inch of ...

Bruised Fruit

Adam Morris

June 16, 2022

Uncrowding the mantel of gay saints.

Our Man in Hollywood

Joel Whitney

June 15, 2022

With help from the CIA, Joseph Mankiewicz took a stand against “anti-Americanism.”

Blues and Roots

John Washington

June 14, 2022

On the many faces of Charles Mingus.

California Stars

Susan Elizabeth Shepard

June 13, 2022

Pole workers unite in North Hollywood.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

June 10, 2022

Shock and Awes Last Sunday morning in the Fort Worth, Texas, suburb of Watauga, Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church celebrated Pride Month with a rousing sermon on homosexuals, who are, in his Bible-addled view, without exception pedophiles who are so “dangerous ...

Let Us Prey

Rafia Zakaria

June 10, 2022

Alienated

Texas authorities are determined to hunt down “illegals.”

Patterns of Meaning

Robert Rubsam

June 09, 2022

Inside Gerald Murnane’s infinitely expanding mind.

Palais Intrigue

James Wham

June 08, 2022

For all its cash-flashing and celebrity worship, Cannes still offers moments of possibility.

Never Gonna Give You Up

Adrian Nathan West

June 07, 2022

Ending elite capture.

Consciously Uncontracting

Amber Husain

June 06, 2022

In defense of burning professional bridges.

Same as the Old Boss

Rafia Zakaria

June 03, 2022

Alienated

Meet the girlboss. Suspiciously similar to the old boss.