The Baffler

Sertanejo's success is a nod to Texas's cultural victory over Brazil's farming frontier—and agribusiness's victory over the Brazilian economy, accounting for around a quarter of its GDP. Turbocharged by social media in one of the world's most terminally online nations, increasingly dependent on Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, Brazil has fused the codes of the American West onto its own supposedly endless tropical frontier of savannah and rainforest. This expanse of natural beauty has been rapidly transformed into industrial farmland for an export machine supposedly “feeding the world,” in the argot of agribusiness barons, even as millions of Brazilians are deprived of proper nutrition.

But if I had a kid, I'd want her to be Palestinian all the way. I always say I'm not going to be a slave to a baby

A few weeks after we put our cat to sleep, the animal clinic sent us her ashes in a tied-up plastic bag. There was a second bag with her collar intact, a thin piece of dark blue nylon with a bell the size of a marble. Then, inside the third bag, only a lumpy gray disc. I didn't know what it was, so I showed it to my wife. A human had smushed their thumb into a piece of clay in a sad imitation of our dead cat's paw print, she explained. “Oh,” I said. My life is not very exciting. Not much happens, and I do not expect anything to. There was a hole in the gray disc for a ribbon, but we didn't want to hang it up anywhere. But we didn't throw it away either. You see, our house is cold and empty now, and each night so willingly we walk into it.

Who would have thought a man could spend his life going around collecting bits of old tinfoil and sitting hour by month by year

With tens of thousands of active and abandoned oil wells scattered across an area the size of Great Britain, the Permian Basin produces an average

In 2014, I Landed my dream job . I didn't realize it would involve desperate strangers asking me to save them from demonic oppression.

The history of the Boston Gender Identity Service proves that solidarity across apparent divides is not only possible but essential.

The history of the Boston Gender Identity Service proves that solidarity across apparent divides is not only possible but essential.

Nearly a century ago in a nondescript facility in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, an engineer with the unlikely name of Philo T.

Can't a sovereign man live a goddamned second in his own house without a—a—a cunty bureaucrat knocking at his door?