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The art of fashion photography

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Betting the Farm

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In Ukraine, the corporate consolidation of farmland poses a number of risks.

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March into the Ruins

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Kluge always wanted to give people, and the principles to which people try to be faithful, some extra lift.

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Cherish Your Memorized Weakness

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"The Comeback" is by no means happy to be here.

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February 10, 2026

I’m Not Done with You

Mary Turfah

If bodies keep a score, Israel uses the Palestinian body to say it is winning.

October 1, 2025

Given This Reality

Mary Turfah

What comes together can come apart.

August 26, 2025

For Betar or Worse

Hannah Gais

There are distressingly few paths to challenging Canary Mission and Betar.

August 20, 2025

What Do I Have in Common with Jews?

Avi Ackermann

Judaism brings inherited obligation, not hereditary talent.

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Current issue, no. 83

The Profession That Does Not Exist

Baffler Symposium

Writing won’t make you a living

Detachment

Lauren Rothery

No alternatives were considered

Warfare in a Box

Benjamin Fogel

Executive Outcomes and the making of the modern mercenary

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Dawn of the Space Lords

Corey Pein

January 2022

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Spoiling the Last Frontier

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Vigilante Injustice

Charlotte Rosen

Two books revisit the Bernie Goetz shooting.

April 14

What’s in a Name?

Nico Taylor

“Ain’t that so? You never never know.”

April 9

They Came to See Us Suffer

Charlie Tyson

In the influencer novel, the work is the pain.

Vigilante Injustice

Charlotte Rosen

April 15

Vigilante Injustice

Charlotte Rosen

April 15

Collage of newspaper front pages depicting Bernie Goetz. Visible text includes: "Subway 'Vigilante'" and "Had to Be Done."

April 14

What’s in a Name?

Nico Taylor

“Ain’t that so? You never never know.”

April 9

They Came to See Us Suffer

Charlie Tyson

In the influencer novel, the work is the pain.

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Cloud Control

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Anthropic’s defiance of Trump and the new frontier of corporate governance

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Frothing Mad

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How the young became key players in the labor movement

April 3

Papers, Please

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The toll of age verification laws on digital sex work

April 2

The Crisis Response Trap

Eric Reinhart

Naming the emergency while protecting the status quo

March 31

Think Nothing of It

Webb Wright

Outsourcing cognitive tasks to the bots

March 26

Known Horrors

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The conspiracy theories are not helping

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“‘A yellow rose means infidelity and disloyalty. My heart burns is cactus.’”

April 10

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Don’t get me wrong. I also want to kill you.

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