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The Baffler

November 12, 2021

My Big Fat Getty Wedding As nominally the most powerful woman in the nation that is singularly responsible for cumulatively pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other, Nancy Pelosi recognizes the moral responsibility of the United States to, after decades of ...

Huma in Hillaryland

Rafia Zakaria

November 12, 2021

Alienated

Clinton’s right-hand woman on the down side of power

Give Peace a Chance

Joshua Craze

November 11, 2021

Séverine Autesserre’s apologia for international peacebuilding.

Seeing Holes

Jackson Davidow

November 10, 2021

What can account for Darrel Ellis’s historiographic exclusion?

This Land is Their Land

Jordan G. Teicher

November 09, 2021

The billionaire class holds the planet for ransom

The Good, the Bad, and the GOP

Dave Denison

November 08, 2021

Civilifications

A dream of democracy permanently deferred.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 05, 2021

I’ve Had the Time of My Life World leaders descended on Glasgow this week to assure the masses that they ab-so-lutely understand the severity of the climate crisis. Boris Johnson, taking the stage, adopted an appropriately grim tone: “Humanity has long since run down the ...

Trump’s Apprentice?

Rafia Zakaria

November 03, 2021

Alienated

In France, TV talk-show provocateur Éric Zemmour eyes the presidency.

A Living Weapon in Your Hand

Francesca Wade

November 03, 2021

Diane di Prima's poetry combined revolutionary ideas and spiritual fervor.

When He Reaches His Solitude in Full

Ghassan Zaqtan

November 02, 2021

Poems From Palestine

He closes the door, turns off the lightsexcept the hallway’s which leads to the fenceand lets him peek at the bougainvillea and the branches of the sweet apple he planted last winter.  Inside his room one candleby the window will do. A smokey candle and its ...

Left Behind

Lydia Kiesling

November 02, 2021

The Build Back Better Act makes families a bargaining chip.

The Well-Upholstered Nightmare

Will Harrison

November 01, 2021

We first see it emblazoned upon the book’s cover, and then once more on its opening page: a resplendent photograph of a mid-sized Spanish Colonial at dusk. Light appears to travel through the image somehow—a quality derived from a long exposure time—receding as the ...