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Daily Bafflements
June 06, 2014
This face-cheese doesn’t make itself, you know. / Photo by Claire P. • From The Baffler’s own Chris Lehmann in In These Times, a look at Whole Foods’s “artisanal union-busting” in Chicago. • Glenn Greenwald writes at First Look that ...

A Modest Proposal for the Twenty-First Century
October 02, 2013
There is something to be said for having a strong voting bloc, the power to organize, a grumpy scrappiness, and a golden opportunity. On Tuesday, a group of World War II veterans, visiting Washington as part of the Honor Flight network, were kept from visiting their memorial and ...

The Beltway Media Shuck-Down
October 01, 2013
The Beltway media’s standard accounts of how governing and politics operate in the American republic are as oversimplified as patty-cake. And, as the great Guignol show known as Shutdown ’13 amply demonstrates, the end results are about as edifying. The audience for this ...

CNBC Treasures Jamie Dimon’s Enormous Bank
September 30, 2013
For some reason, Alex Pareene was booked on the CNBC Friday afternoon program, Closing Bell. It is baffling why Pareene, a senior writer at Salon, was asked to come on the show–though his appearance does, so far as we know, mark the only time a Baffler contributor has ...

All Hail the Shutdown Circle Jerk
September 27, 2013
On Monday at midnight, funding for the federal government is set to expire. As they stand now, here are each party’s negotiating postures: the Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, insist they will not fund the government so long as the new health care reform ...

Save Us from the Welfare Surfers
September 25, 2013
Ahh, the Dignity of Work. It is time, once again, to consider those old standbys, Work and Dignity. According to the House of Representatives, it seems that many a wayward American soul has lost sight of that most cherished ideal: the workday. These Americans have come up with ...