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The Baffler

October 22, 2021

Why You Gotta Be So Mean? Earlier this year, rumors began to fly that Pfizer, enabled by our wondrous intellectual property regime, might possibly have been bullying governments in Covid-19 vaccine negotiations. The multinational conglomerate, it seems, not only wanted liability ...

Festival of Fear

Rafia Zakaria

October 22, 2021

Alienated

The Jaipur Literature Festival serves as marketing for an increasingly repressive India.

The Novel According to Bezos

Megan Marz

October 21, 2021

Has Amazon changed literature?

The Never-Ending Story

Victoria Nebolsin

October 20, 2021

Storytelling amid the ruins in Joy Williams’s “Harrow.”

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 15, 2021

The Nightmare of History Generally speaking, “history,” as it’s taught to children suffering through our glorious public education system, has tended to accept that the Holocaust—during which, it might be recalled, some six million Jewish men, women, and children were ...

Thunderheads

Michael Bible

October 15, 2021

Fiction

Short fiction by Michael Bible.

Taxis Take a Stand

Luis Feliz Leon

October 14, 2021

In New York City, cabbies are protesting 24/7 for debt relief.

Hey, Kids, Who Screwed the Climate?

Wen Stephenson

October 13, 2021

The fight against fossil fuels needs intergenerational solidarity.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 08, 2021

The United Nations & Co. The United Nations General Assembly launched into its seventy-sixth session last month, an interminable parade of proclamations and resolutions and revisions to previous proclamations and resolutions that will set the stage for Sustainable ...

Culture of Abuse

Rafia Zakaria

October 08, 2021

Alienated

On the “cruel indifference” of France’s Catholic Church.

After Eden

Robert Rubsam

October 07, 2021

Traversing the scarred landscapes of Jean Giono’s Provence.

Molecules and Vectors

Asad Haider

October 06, 2021

On Noel Ignatiev’s radical, lifelong commitments.