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The Baffler

March 25, 2022

Riders on the Storm Text messages between conservative activist Virginia Thomas and Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, obtained through Congress’s investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot, reveal that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence ...

Heavily Made Up

Jessa Crispin

March 25, 2022

Don't look now, but it's “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”

The World Was Just an Address

A. S. Hamrah

March 24, 2022

The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.

Beautiful Lies

Kalpana Mohanty

March 23, 2022

Why does our discourse about beauty remain so shallow?

The Prosecutor’s Presidency

Max S. Kim

March 22, 2022

On South Korea’s newly elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol.

The View from Warsaw

Joy Neumeyer

March 21, 2022

After decades of conflict, Poland stands in solidarity with Ukraine.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 18, 2022

James Bond: The Origin Story: The Movie: The Series On Thursday afternoon, Amazon closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, less than twenty-four hours after Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill that would—were it to go absolutely anywhere in a Democrat-controlled ...

The Ukrainian Appeal

Rafia Zakaria

March 18, 2022

Alienated

Zelensky's speech to Congress asked the United States to save his country.

Tatar Raspberry

Vladimir Sorokin

March 18, 2022

Fiction

Short fiction by Vladimir Sorokin.

The Billionaire’s Bard

Rob Madole

March 16, 2022

On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson.

The Man Who Writes Newspaper Articles While The Trees Disappear And No One Listens

Dalia Taha

March 15, 2022

Poems From Palestine

For several daysmy grandfather cried.In the end he admitted he was alone,as though he didn’t have seven sonswho had given him twenty-five grandchildren. My grandmother at home,a basket of figs between her feet,is daydreaming as she carefully peelsand feeds them to my ...

The New Neurasthenia

Charlie Tyson

March 15, 2022

How “burnout” became the buzzword of the moment.