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Bombs Away

Lorissa Rinehart

October 21, 2019

How ads for drones and military payload delivery systems invaded our timelines

Stick it to Sports

Shane Burley

October 17, 2019

How soccer supporters’ groups fought the league and won.

Meat in the Machine

Ed Simon

October 16, 2019

Pain is the ultimate antidote to mind-body dualism.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 11, 2019

Tax Murderers

An Evil Medium

Elizabeth Horkley

October 11, 2019

Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother, fifty years on.

Poetic Justice

Nora Caplan-Bricker

October 09, 2019

The intimate reckonings of Jeannie Vanasco and Attiya Khan

Back to the Wall

Sammy Feldblum

October 08, 2019

The American myths that drove frontier expansion now support closing the borders

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 04, 2019

But First, Champagne!

The Vanishing

Ross Barkan

October 03, 2019

If a person can’t survive by the acid terms of the market, they don’t deserve to survive at all.

Ghost in the Machine

Jacob Silverman

October 03, 2019

How Edward Snowden found his conscience

Power of Attorney

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

October 02, 2019

The long afterlife of Roy Cohn

That’s so Craven

Ed Burmila

October 01, 2019

The defining characteristic of Donald Trump is the comprehensive absence of loyalty and trust in his relationships. Physicists can only dream of an atomic clock as reliable and consistent as the inevitability that Donald Trump will turn on every single person around him. Not ...