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The Baffler

December 17, 2021

OOO Early next year, Republicans will take control of the state legislature in Virginia. Democrats, biding their time during these final few moments in power, have expressed concern that—what with the Supreme Court all but certain to curtail or outright overturn Roe v. Wade at ...

Ill Liberal Arts

Rafia Zakaria

December 17, 2021

Alienated

When colleges use politics to eliminate political science.

Yesterday’s Men

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

December 16, 2021

Cold War liberalism, what is it good for?

The Battle over Memory at El Mozote

Nelson Rauda

December 15, 2021

The El Mozote massacre’s survivors have been fighting for justice for forty years.

Southeast Asia’s Forgotten Revolutionaries

Bryony Lau

December 14, 2021

On transnational futures that never came to pass.

In Sickness and in Wealth

Rafia Zakaria

December 13, 2021

Alienated

In Ross Douthat’s Deep Trouble, disease is tempered by privilege.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 10, 2021

Extremely Expensive and Totally Pointless As new Covid-19 cases perilously ticked up this week amid fears of the Omicron variant, the Biden administration touted its new initiative allowing privately insured Americans to—after filling out the necessary paperwork, of ...

Ludwig

Beth Morgan

December 10, 2021

Fiction

Short fiction by Beth Morgan.

Spoiling for a Fight

Tom Stevenson

December 07, 2021

American analysts wildly exaggerate the “Chinese Threat.”

Passing for Racial Democracy

Stephanie Reist

December 06, 2021

The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

December 03, 2021

All Wonderwall and No Play Over the interminably long holiday weekend, as millions of well-intentioned Americans willingly entrapped themselves with the torturous deep-state conspiracy theories of relatives variously drunk on tryptophan and Facebook, sixty-one hapless Brits ...

No Country for Old Women

Michael Hofmann

December 03, 2021

The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor was a master of awkward and complicated feelings.