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The Uber Presidency
May 16, 2019
As Trump is the apotheosis of rank materialism and revanchist nationalism in the political arena, Uber is Silicon Valley’s greatest and most absurd offering to the American public.

The Teflon Con
March 26, 2019
What is it that makes some leaders, and not others, seem invulnerable to scandal or charges of corruption?

Spoiler Alert!
March 11, 2019
As readers will be stunned to discover, one billionaire can distort free market processes pretty easily.

Gilding The Wall
January 29, 2019
On a Tuesday earlier this month, I walked out of jail and drove until my car ran out of gas and died a mile from my house in a crowded Boston intersection. This happened not for lack of access to fuel or money to buy it with—or even because I had failed to notice that the gas ...

The Year of Our Baffler 2018
December 28, 2018
2018 proved once and for all that cruelty and stupidity make energetic bedfellows. It was the year of children in cages and “a very stable genius,” of Paul Manafort’s leathers and attempts to legislate trans people out of existence. The measured, expert testimony of Dr. ...

Semper Bye
December 14, 2018
Now that John Kelly's on his way out of the White House, a closer look at the asshole in General's clothing.