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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

Narrative Napalm

Noah Kulwin

May 17, 2021

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

May 14, 2021

Dropping the Psaki Bomb

Slumber Party

Madeline Cash

May 14, 2021

Fiction

Short fiction by Madeline Cash.

All the CIA’s Women

Rafia Zakaria

May 14, 2021

Alienated

At the forefront of "inclusive" empire-building.

The Unreconstructed Radical

Richard Kreitner

May 13, 2021

Thaddeus Stevens and the history of compromise with slaveocracy.

Fake Realness

Adam Morris

May 12, 2021

A new book confronts the gay bar’s slow decline.