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Maiden America
Jessa Crispin Issue No. 33St. Cecilia crashes a purity ball, with Sarah of the Desert and Melania the Elder as her dates. They are confused by what they see. Teen and pre-teen girls in white gowns dance with older… Read More »
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Corruptions of Empire
Suzy Hansen Issue No. 33Editor’s Note, December 6, 2016: This article has been updated to reflect president-elect Trump’s post-election statements and cabinet appointments. A version of this article appeared in print in The Baffler no. 33. I live in… Read More »
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Virtuous Reality
Robert Westbrook Issue No. 33The aim of every political Constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and… Read More »
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Rights Make Might
Yasmin Nair Issue No. 33As the botched chances and bitter disappointments stacked up late into the fateful night of November 8, 2016, the ceiling at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan was a soaring collateral casualty. Made… Read More »
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Trumped and Abandoned
Susan Faludi Issue No. 33On a cold winter’s day just before Christmas, Mike McNulty picked me up at the Denver airport in his wheezing Aerostar van with the broken seatbelt clasp—he couldn’t afford to repair it—and we rode the… Read More »
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The Other Buffett Rule
Alex Cuadros Issue No. 33During Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency, Americans became even more confused than usual over the meaning of wealth. Recall the moment when Trump descended that escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015 and announced… Read More »
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Explanation for What?
David V. Johnson Issue No. 33Future historians may well mark the date of April 6, 2014, as a watershed moment in the media’s epic bid to redefine itself in the digital age. For this was the day that Vox.com went… Read More »
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Baristas of the Brave New Data State
Aaron Miguel Cantú Issue No. 33Howard Schultz, the CEO of the Starbucks Corporation, was disturbed by what he saw around him: plywood-boarded windows, dilapidated homes, the spilling guts of suburban poverty in Ferguson, Missouri. Schultz toured the city the year… Read More »
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Big Bother Is Watching
Jacob Silverman Issue No. 33One of the lesser-known casualties of Newt Gingrich’s ghoulish Contract with America was the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a small government agency charged with producing impartial reports for Congress and other officials about issues… Read More »
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Off Our Butts
June Thunderstorm Issue No. 33The powers that be say anti-smoking legislation is for our own well-being. Nothing could be further from the truth. The attack on cigarette smoking does not improve the lives of those it claims to protect,… Read More »
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Power Outages
Gene Seymour Issue No. 33Black Power, like many things associated with the 1960s, blossomed, burst, and broke apart into fragments of meaning and intent that to this day suggest wildly different things to different people. It started out as… Read More »
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Making COIN
Tim Shorrock Issue No. 33Eight years ago, as Washington was making the transition from the nightmare years of George W. Bush to the endless possibilities of Barack Obama, national security elites were transfixed by a military doctrine called counterinsurgency…. Read More »