Illustration — Jason Arias

The Baffler

Select editorial illustrations for political, economic, art, and cultural criticism

Waiting for Bitcoin What’s next for cryptocurrency: the masses or the Übermensch? By Brendan C. Byrne — Waiting for Bitcoin
What’s next for cryptocurrency: the masses or the Übermensch?
By Brendan C. Byrne

The Conversion of Gucci Mane Also, Is RZA a clone? By Niela Orr — The Conversion of Gucci Mane
Also, Is RZA a clone?
By Niela Orr

Boys Do Cry (And Shoot) Male fragility is a dangerous taboo By Jay Baron Nicorvo — Boys Do Cry (And Shoot)
Male fragility is a dangerous taboo
By Jay Baron Nicorvo

Fear and Loathing in Cascadia The bioregion at the intersection of liberal hipsterdom and white nationalism By Britta Lokting — Fear and Loathing in Cascadia
The bioregion at the intersection of liberal hipsterdom and white nationalism
By Britta Lokting

Spielberg’s Children It’s Steven’s dreamworld, we’re just dying in it By J.W. McCormack — Spielberg’s Children
It’s Steven’s dreamworld, we’re just dying in it
By J.W. McCormack

Greek Tragedy What it’s like to argue with the Eurogroup By Doug Henwood — Greek Tragedy
What it’s like to argue with the Eurogroup
By Doug Henwood

The Destructive Character The eternal return of culture’s alienated oddball white guy By Niela Orr — The Destructive Character
The eternal return of culture’s alienated oddball white guy
By Niela Orr

Guernica

Select editorial illustrations for investigative journalism, personal essay, poetry, and fiction

“Build that Wall!”: A Local History The boy was killed in Nogales, where the border fence curves over hilly desert like a weird spine By Mark Binelli — “Build that Wall!”: A Local History
The boy was killed in Nogales, where the border fence curves over hilly desert like a weird spine
By Mark Binelli

Mother is Marxist The market scans my child, calculates pecuniary value By Susan Briante — Mother is Marxist
The market scans my child, calculates pecuniary value
By Susan Briante

Marlena Excerpt from the debut novel By Julie Buntin — Marlena
Excerpt from the debut novel
By Julie Buntin

Until the Last Dog is Hung Crime, addiction, and religion meet at the greyhound race track By Ed Winstead — Until the Last Dog is Hung
Crime, addiction, and religion meet at the greyhound race track
By Ed Winstead

Terraform

Select illustrations for Motherboard’s speculative fiction site

A Most Elegant Solution I always said I wanted to be one of the first to die on Mars By M. Darusha Wehm — A Most Elegant Solution
I always said I wanted to be one of the first to die on Mars
By M. Darusha Wehm

A Task In the future, Americans may be forced to cross the border in search of a better life in Mexico By Ken Baumann — A Task
In the future, Americans may be forced to cross the border in search of a better life in Mexico
By Ken Baumann

The Return The sad future of how we might cope when war comes home—or almost home By Debbie Urbanski — The Return
The sad future of how we might cope when war comes home—or almost home
By Debbie Urbanski

The Exemption Packet What happens when the kids of the future want to opt out of human augmentation? By Rose Eveleth — The Exemption Packet
What happens when the kids of the future want to opt out of human augmentation?
By Rose Eveleth

Superfluous Preferences Behold the future of highly regulated military space sex By Jenni Juvonen — Superfluous Preferences
Behold the future of highly regulated military space sex
By Jenni Juvonen

They, We, Me Humans First By Ryan Bloom — They, We, Me
Humans First
By Ryan Bloom

Various Publications

Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid By Ramin Skibba The mystery of ’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed, continues to deepen Quanta Magazine — Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid By Ramin Skibba
The mystery of ’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed, continues to deepen
Quanta Magazine

Future Jobs Depend on a Science-Based Economy By The Editors The next administration must prime the true growth engine Scientific American — Future Jobs Depend on a Science-Based Economy By The Editors
The next administration must prime the true growth engine
Scientific American