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Motherhood!
May 01, 2018
Sheila Heti's Motherhood is indeed a political novel. But it may not be about motherhood.

Love, Actually
February 28, 2018
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 Ass, Two ...

Fresh Hell
February 16, 2018
What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant? From the ivy-clad brain trust of our elite universities comes an innovative proposition: the Visas Between Individuals Program, in which Americans can sponsor an immigrant in order to extract their labor at below minimum wage rates, ...

Non-Compete Clause
October 12, 2017
Female competition is the sharp edge of internalized sexism and the death of solidarity---and it’s utterly, irredeemably neoliberal. 

What Happened?
October 03, 2017
"Nasty Women," a new collection of feminist writing, has one eye on the future and one foot in the election.

Mommy Issues
September 28, 2017
The Mom's March, set to be a right-wing answer to the anti-Trump Women's March back in January, was a bust. Why?

General McMaster and the Miniskirts
August 24, 2017
It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...

Slumber of the UN Women
March 21, 2017
The United Nations’s sixty-first convening of its Commission on the Status of Women, ensconced in an impenetrable bureaucratic bubble. . .