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Small Man in a Memory Hole
June 14, 2017
Still, there is one striking dog that didn’t bark here. Nobody in the hearing questioned the premise that the Russian state interfered in the U.S. presidential election.

Hang-Ups
June 09, 2017
The many are compassionate, the UK election results say, and the few are weak as hell.

Citizen Zuckerberg
June 06, 2017
Why would Zuckerberg want the job of president? Let’s be real: whose future is brighter, the United States’ or Facebook’s?

Daily Bafflements
June 02, 2017
• Baffler contributor Corey Pein reports for The Guardian on a Trump supporter who’s received a very special award from some of the president’s associates. John Beavers, who last year reportedly sold his house to campaign independently on behalf of Donald Trump ...

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 ...

Fascism for Dummies
May 19, 2017
Would the Holocaust have happened if Moe Howard was Chancellor of Germany? The Gulag, if Stalin was swapped out for Stan Laurel?