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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 25, 2022

Better, Faster, Stronger, Richer Well, it’s finally happened: Russian president Vladimir Putin, a keen observer of the West’s expeditious decline, has gone and pulped the post-Cold War consensus by invading Ukraine, a sovereign nation that, in Putin’s telling, ...

Mixed Signals

Rafia Zakaria

February 25, 2022

Alienated

On the divided loyalties of today’s America Firsters.

A Deal with the Devil

Sara Nović

February 25, 2022

Fiction

Short fiction by Sara Nović.

Machines Against the Rage

Lyta Gold

February 24, 2022

Put down your smartphone—so you can be more productive?

Sex Miseducation

Whitney Strub

February 23, 2022

A bildungsroman of boomer hermeneutics.

Forty-Four Thoughts for Cecil Taylor

Taylor Ho Bynum

February 22, 2022

A literary improvisation.

Cold Comfort

Kristen Martin

February 21, 2022

Sarah Manguso’s icy debut novel.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

February 18, 2022

Get the Band Back Together For weeks now, we, the doomscrolling public, have been trapped in the tenacious drum circle of Western media, which, having grown bored of the plenitude of other crises besieging our species, seem hellbent on summoning the hallucinatory fog of war ...

Intolerant India

Rafia Zakaria

February 18, 2022

Alienated

Anti-Muslim rage is running amok throughout India.

Revolt of the Super-Employees

Erik Baker

February 17, 2022

On the political resentment of America’s little bosses.

Steering the Fed

Trevor Jackson

February 15, 2022

Can a new coalition push the Fed toward humane economics?

How Should a Person Tree?

Jack Hanson

February 14, 2022

On Sheila Heti’s creation myth.