No. 49 Format:Print Issue whether squeamish liberals like it

whether squeamish liberals like it or not

Chris Bray tracked down General David Petraeus and his wandering PhD

the social order at large would descend into squalor

concerned citizens—we all spin yarns in our attempts to take control of the very real powers of state

And Brendan O’Connor explores how the lives of American immigrants at the border are made expendable and invisible

No. 49 Format:Print Issue whether squeamish liberals like itDo we begin with infrastructural or cultural, environmental or psychological breakdown? Its a case of readers choice: Issue 49 finds The Baffler . . . in Ruins, surveying the wreck both head on and slant. Emily Harnett makes a painstaking study of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the site of a disaster that sounds too stupid to be real, a trash fire that will inherit the earth. Conversely, in Houston, Jake Bittle takes stock of the federal buyouts of property