The Baffler, est. 1988, is a magazine of art, criticism, and political analysis, publishing bimonthly print issues as well as daily online dispatches.
The Baffler
Just Say Yes
Sinopharmacology • Psychonauts with Chinese characteristics
What’s in a Pill? • An inside look at the shifting risks to safe abortion providers
Jim Carroll’s Ass
Permanent Crisis • Myopic responses perpetuate the “opioid epidemic”
The Karen Horney Progressions
Tunnel Visions • Notes on the underground, from Sinaloa to Gaza
Annette Peacock
High Expectations • Budding labor tensions in the cannabis industry
I Wanna Be Your Dog • A cultural history of McGruff the Crime Dog
Civil Animals • Are you going to eat your baby?
K-Pop • Our forefathers did dissociatives
The Insulin Empire • How profiteers pushed a lifesaving drug out of reach
Ordering a Casket from Amazon Prime
A Drug Against War • The militarization of Ecstasy
Pain and Suffering • Demonizing opioids has unintended consequences
Miss Direction • George Santos and the end-times
American Rehab • Oregon’s fleeting experiment with humane drug laws
Sea Urchin
Bafflomathy (No. 74)