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Fresh Hell

The Baffler

August 06, 2021

A Plague on Your Houses Last Saturday, the nation’s eviction ban was allowed to expire, putting some 3.6 million people living in the richest nation in the history of the world at imminent risk of becoming homeless all because—according to the Biden administration’s ...

Ordinary Violence

Rafia Zakaria

August 06, 2021

Alienated

Where is the international feminist alliance against domestic violence?

Speeding Away from Zion

Ross Barkan

August 05, 2021

What is the American Jew?

His Own Prophet

Suleiman Mourad

August 04, 2021

Adonis’s Misguided Polemic Against Islam.

Find Your Soul

Matt Hanson

August 03, 2021

The language of American cultishness.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 30, 2021

One-Way Ticket to Thirst Town

Governing Bodies

Rafia Zakaria

July 30, 2021

Alienated

Why are women athletes required to show so much skin?

Nuding Out

Daniela Blei

July 29, 2021

In 1926, a crusade swept across Europe. In Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and even stodgy England, some three million Europeans had reportedly dropped their drawers and flocked to a “nudity cult,” leading Popular Science Monthly to ask of its American readers: “Do We Wear ...

House of Connection

Rafia Zakaria

July 27, 2021

Alienated

When the warden throws a party in the county jail.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

July 23, 2021

Medaling in Folly The year is 2021 and the 2020 Olympics are now officially, heedlessly, dismally underway in Tokyo, having kicked off on Friday with the “Parade of Nations” in a stadium that the city of Tokyo, currently under a state of emergency due to the ongoing ...

Mother

Brian Evenson

July 23, 2021

Fiction

Short fiction by Brian Evenson.

No Exit

Felipe De La Hoz

July 22, 2021

As the U.S. considers intervention in Haiti, refugees are turned away.