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Waitin’ on the Student Debt Jubilee

Amber A’Lee Frost

May 04, 2017

Going to college was a good decision, but deciding not to pay back my student loans was a better one.

The Constant Comrade

Amber A’Lee Frost

March 15, 2017

But reader, learn to take breaks! Remember, after all, the first act of the Paris Communards: they shot out the clocks.

Plus-Size Proletarian

Amber A’Lee Frost

March 01, 2017

Mind and body cannot be divided (until we’re all uploaded to the cloud or transplanted into sexy robot bodies, of course). So while your guilt is an understandable result of our terrible atomized neoliberal society, it is ultimately a malfunction.

Daily Bafflements

The Baffler

December 07, 2016

• Dear Bafflers, we offer you a new issue, “The Virtue Cartel.” This one’s dedicated to the virtuecrats—in the words of Chris Lehmann, these are the “policy big thinkers, military strategists, ...

What We Talk about When We Talk about Bankers

Amber A’Lee Frost

August 10, 2016

Welcome to The Baffler’s agony corner, YOUR SORRY ASS, where Amber A’Lee Frost dispenses bossy, judgmental advice on how to live your life fairly, kindly, and with good humor. Send us your rants and pleas, please: [email protected]. Dear Your Sorry ...

“He Sees You When You’re Sleeping”: The Baffler Gift Guide

Hannah Gais

December 21, 2015

“You have zero privacy anyway,” Scott McNealy, the chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, told reporters in 1999. “Get over it.” McNealy, a trailblazer for the many Silicon Valley “makers” who have since thrown privacy under the bus, wasn’t wrong. And ...

Freedom Fries: McDonald’s and the Fourteenth Amendment

Shawn Hamilton

March 26, 2015

In his book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser demonstrates the dominance of McDonald’s, not just in the context of the history of the fast food industry, but in the history of all industry. McDonald’s is the largest owner of retail property in the world. The company trains ...