The Baffler is America's top source for intriguing and unusual left-wing political commentary, cultural analysis, short stories, poetry, and art.
Thomas Frank founded the magazine in 1988 as "the journal that blunts the cutting edge," and it is now edited by Jonathon Sturgeon and based in New York. Regular writers to The Baffler include Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Faludi, Evgeny Morozov, Rick Perlstein, and Astra Taylor, among others.
