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That Thing They Have
August 23, 2018
What we are witnessing is a classic FBI investigation that is slowly, steadily dismantling a criminal organization.

International Man of Monocracy
August 03, 2018
Reader: Are you someone who is angry in an inchoate way at the Trump administration as an institution but who would prefer to focus your anger like a laser beam on specific individuals? We here at The Baffler are here to help! As a wise man once told my father while trying to ...

The Garbage Man
April 04, 2018
Meet Sidney Torres: New Orleans trash king, private police chief, reality TV star, and, possibly, the next Trump.

The Cambridge Analytica Con
March 21, 2018
“The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of emotion to him and to those to whom he imparts his picture, and hence creates desire rather than a mere feeling of ought.” —Walter Dill Scott, Influencing ...

Stranger Than Fiction
March 14, 2018
How Donald J. Trump's campaign ruined my outlandish political satire about a right-wing demagogue running for president.

The Reaching-Out Industry
January 30, 2018
A whole new cottage industry has popped up seeking a more earnest, direct conversation, begging Trump voters to sit down and explain: how exactly did we get this way?

Fresh Hell
January 26, 2018
Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion. This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...

Presidential Confusion
January 26, 2018
Imagine being a presidential scholar in this moment when the highest office in the land has been captured by a barely literate showman.

Slim Returns
January 02, 2018
Given its emphasis on revenge, any real differences between Eminem’s music and a CNN-bashing Trump tweet are razor-thin.

It’s a THAAD, THAAD, THAAD World
December 21, 2017
War hawks have a long history of pitching the illusion of a survivable nuclear war to an American public that tends to be unenthusiastic about dying in a holocaust of fire and radiation. If the prospect of nuclear war is downplayed, public opinion may be more open to ...