This week, we’re sharing stories from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Laurie Penny, Mina Kimes, Skip Hollandsworth, and David Marchese.
The Baffler
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Queer Art of Failing Better
Laurie Penny on Queer Eye: “It’s not about queerness at all. It’s actually about the disaster of heterosexuality—and what, if anything, can be salvaged from its ruins.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from David Dayen, M.H. Miller, T. Cooper, Caren Lissner, and Michael Adno.
Posted inQuote Posts
The Crushing, Ever-Present Weight of Debt
“We were nothing to these companies but a number in a database. And they fully controlled our fates.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Quotes
You’ll Dream What We Tell You To Dream and You’ll Like It
Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.
Posted inBusiness, Nonfiction, Quotes
Dorm Living for Adults
The new Common co-living company isn’t as communal is it pretends.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Lead Poisoned People of Color in East Chicago and Beyond
How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Tearing the Heart from the Music Industry
Digitization has removed the humanity from the music business, from collaboration to mutual respect.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Quotes, Sports
The NFL Has Pimped Its Players for Too Long
The disturbing parallels between professional football and the business of pimping
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech
Destroying Music, One Playlist at a Time
Spotify’s corporate-branded playlists are not the solution to the music industry’s problems. They’re a new problem.