“he’s seminarian-ing with aplomb”
The unusual thing about James Talarico
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So, while Christie would have hated Edward Bluemel in the role, she also would have had Things To Say about David Suchet, and I'm pretty sure that whole giant moustache business means she's literally haunting Kenneth Branagh right now.
The campaign against Graham Platner says as much about elite hypocrisy as it does about the candidate himself.
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Amy Laura Hall
They say everything is bigger in Texas, but our new issue reveals just how far the state’s influence has expanded beyond its geographic limits, reflecting and shaping the politics of a world overrun with extractive industry, cattle fetishism, and border violence. thebaffler.com/issues/no-84
It would be hard to miss the Buc-ee’s in Luling, TX. For one thing, it’s 1.7 acres. For another, it’s lit up like a spaceship. For our new issue, Forrest Wilder visits the “travel center” chain that’s coming to a town near you—or trying to.
“Rural workers in Bolivia have seized an oil field in the Santa Cruz region and halted all production, as part of the general strike against neoliberalism.
The site, in the Santa Rosa del Sara municipality, is now fully offline.”
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Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Nation Magazine
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A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.
Josh Shepperd
In our new issue, Oliver Eagleton takes a tour of American Ulster, examining the cultural and political exchange that unites the right in Northern Ireland and the American South.
