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The Baffler

May 28, 2021

You, the Bounty Hunter  Internal documents recently obtained by Motherboard demonstrate the depths that Citizen—a social network for reporting crime that was tellingly first christened “Vigilante”—is willing to go to hook its users. People who download the app are ...

Applejacking

Michael Wasiura

May 28, 2021

Fiction

Short fiction by Michael Wasiura.

Show of Farce

Rafia Zakaria

May 28, 2021

Alienated

Modi’s government goes to war with Big Tech

The Eye of the Beholder

Shivani Radhakrishnan

May 27, 2021

Encounters with art in Second Place and beyond

The Cop Did It

Matt Hanson

May 26, 2021

Powerful citizens are usually above suspicion.

A Fierce and Violent Land

Sergio González Rodríguez

May 24, 2021

An excerpt from Sergio González Rodríguez’s “El hombre sin cabeza.”

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 21, 2021

We Love the Gays! But Only When the Gays Are Nice! Over the years, the New York Times has worked hard to build up a rapport with a certain subset of the homosexual community: those cash-flush and coddled specimens bred to flash their immaculate dental work in wedding ...

Irreconcilable Billionaires

Rafia Zakaria

May 21, 2021

Alienated

Bill Gates and the myths of the generous philanthropist.

New Problems, Old Ideas

Roman Gressier

May 20, 2021

Nayib Bukele dismantles El Salvador’s fledgling democracy.

In Fury We Trust

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

May 20, 2021

The popular origin story of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has a mythic quality to it. In March 1987, the writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron cancelled her planned talk at the Lesbian and Gay Center in New York. To fill in, organizers tapped Larry Kramer, author of the ...

She Stays Winning

Beatrice Loayza

May 19, 2021

A genre of “feminist” filmmaking conflates suffering and empowerment.

Building from the Rubble

M. Muhannad Ayyash

May 19, 2021

Palestinian resistance and the road to liberation