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Sweet, Sweet Phantasy
August 03, 2017
Corbyn supporters have chosen the playful magic of phantasy over the reality principle, and it's starting to work.

Flint, Beyond the Crisis
May 26, 2017
To call what is happening in Flint, Michigan a “water crisis” feels both exact and not. I’m not sure there’s other language that is as definite, short, and sharp for what was a massive institutional failure on many levels, spanning several years. The story, well ...

The Gospel According to Mitch
May 16, 2017
“And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”                        —Luke 16:15   It will surprise no one to hear that ...

Trump’s Willing Scholars
March 09, 2017
Welcome to This American Carnage, your weekly slice of life from the country of Trump. Trump’s rise has been described as “anti-intellectual” in nature, but that hasn’t stopped a new intellectual movement from feeding off his momentum. Enter American Affairs, a ...

Pax Trumplandia
February 15, 2017
Welcome to This American Carnage, your weekly slice of life from the country of Trump. Another February, another Munich Security Conference, a.k.a. the “world’s most prestigious geopolitical gathering.” This time, though, the conference will take place as a ...

Good Books for Dark Times
November 25, 2016
Steel yourself for the bleak times ahead. Look backward in order to look forward. Find a good book that speaks to this moment. Or one that gets you through the day. Here's The Baffler's list of a few good books. Themes: comfort, clarity, and the clarion call.

The Election That Mattered
October 06, 2016
David Daley makes the case in his new book RATF**KED that if you don’t understand what happened in 2010, you don’t understand something fundamental about why American politics is the way it is today. "It's the biggest political heist in modern times," he says.

Primary Lessons in Propaganda
March 30, 2016
All propaganda is not advertising, but all advertising is propaganda. With “sponsored content” becoming the norm, corporations hiring “reporters” to cover themselves, and media organizations hiring political operatives to deliver the news, the notion that ...