No. 57 Format:Print Issue As rising temperatures make water

As rising temperatures make water ever scarcer

Cosmo Garvin scans the municipal corruption in California’s state capital

where copper mining promises to contaminate the area for generations—he likens this gaping

a group of aging Gen Xers reminisce about mixtapes

And Dan Raeburn recalls when the beloved comic strip Li’l Abner took its sharp turn to the right

No. 57 Format:Print Issue As rising temperatures make waterBaffler no. 57 takes its title, Movements and Campaigns, from Richard Rorty in Dissent. Is it better, his question went, to complete discrete projects in solidarity with individual interest groups, or to focus our energies on building a movement? In other words, how do we pick up the pieces and prevent the current global disaster from being used to further exploit us? And how do we make sure that we get what we need to survive the next one? Looking to