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The Baffler

March 11, 2022

It’s a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World!Last Wednesday, the U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield took to the floor of the United Nations to emphatically condemn Russia’s use of cluster munitions in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, arguing that they, among other vicious weapons, ...

East Berlin Stories

Samuel Huneke

March 10, 2022

Gay espionage in Cold War Berlin.

Apichatpong the Memorious

Dennis Zhou

March 09, 2022

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films uncover long-suppressed histories.

Unblinking Eyes

Felipe De La Hoz

March 08, 2022

Our urban crime panic is fueling an expansion of the surveillance state.

Inside Russia’s War on Dissent

Katie Marie Davies

March 07, 2022

From the streets to social media, speaking out is criminalized.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 04, 2022

Fantastic Beasts As Russia’s war against Ukraine barrels heedlessly, disastrously onward, the international community has come together to make one point exceedingly clear: if Russia’s going to fuck with the selectively applied “rules-based order,” we will respond in ...

Not-So-Great Powers

Rafia Zakaria

March 04, 2022

Alienated

A military power moves in to subjugate a smaller country—when have we seen that before?

End of the World-Building

John Kazior

March 03, 2022

The silver-bullet fantasies of starchitects are a nightmare for the rest of us.

Our Subterranean Order

Jake Bittle

March 03, 2022

If the West shuns Russian oil and gas, what will replace it?

Critically Ill-equipped

Ann Neumann

March 02, 2022

The pandemic showed the dangers of understaffing at the nation's hospitals.

You Shall Be What You Are

Rafael Chirbes

February 28, 2022

Found in Translation

An excerpt from the diaries of Rafael Chirbes.

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, ...