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Political Cartoons

This Trumpzilla Cartoon Won’t Fix a Thing

Politics is hard, and we need some straightforward and literal way to handily process the ever-shifting alliances of power in an …

David Rees
Selected Salvos

Networking into the Abyss

For ten days each March, Austin, Texas, becomes suffused with an ambient hucksterism. It creeps into the city like a low-lying …

Jacob Silverman
Books

No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler

There’s never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don’t believe it, then peer into these genre-defining …

John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank
Stories

People Are Streinz

Seven months without a single dream. Seven whole months. The twenty-first of May was the last time I had a dream. …

Christos Ikonomou
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Mark Wagner
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