BAFFLER

MARCH 26. 2025

If You Should Fall

In the work of queer artists, salvaged materials bathhouses, bars, and cruising grounds become useful once more.

Truth Is Never Finished

They came back for the map, but the map laughed them off: Who bombs hospitals to inherit the earth?

MARCH 21. 2025

Three Stories

Such bliss. Such possibility. I mean look at all this shit. It’s all here. You can do anything.

MARCH 20. 2025

Failure to Rescue

Private equity’s incursion into health care has been disastrous—for patients and workers alike.

MARCH 19. 2025

Guilt by Association

Casting protected speech as terrorism has long been a central strategy of the movement to crush Palestinian activism in every form.

MARCH 18. 2025

The End of Aid

USAID’s own work has never been anything other than self-serving.

What’s the Matter with Abundance?

“Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.

MARCH 13. 2025

Abundance Mindset

Jared Polis could define the future of the Democratic Party. That’s a bad thing.

MARCH 12. 2025

Whaling Upwards

Ethan Rutherford’s debut novel bucks a trend of rewriting the classics to deliver a wholly original whale tale.

MARCH 11. 2025

Sick, Sad World

In her new book, Edna Bonhomme examines the outsized role diseases play in deepening inequality—and how we might order things differently.

MARCH 10. 2025

Treacherous Passage

Crackdowns on existing migration routes have never exactly saved lives. Trump’s proposal to shut down the Darién Gap will only make matters worse.

MARCH 7. 2025

Flowers and Their Meanings

A Is for Arrest Me, B Is for Bronchitis, C Is for Come Here, Brian.

MARCH 6. 2025

Who Gets to Be a Therapist?

Gatekeeping is meant to ensure that future therapists are suited to the work. Some students allege it amounts to discrimination.

MARCH 5. 2025

Hello, Brave New World

There has never been such a precise, relatively cheap, and efficient way to rewrite the body’s code.