san francisco Expensive underground "sleeping pods" proposed to house San Franciscans Rusty Blazenhoff

late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

boston This-City's-Makin'-A-Comeback Bingo Card Thom Dunn

demographics 26-year-old Americans are now more likely to live with parents than a spouse Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism "a failed ideology" and sketches out a "progressive capitalism" to replace it Cory Doctorow

Business To chase out low-waged workers, Mountain View is banning overnight RV and van parking Cory Doctorow

uk Majority of London's newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of "posh ghost towers" Cory Doctorow

housing Couple built a two-story house for $12,000 Mark Frauenfelder

videos Meet John Horgan and the BC NDP – North America’s most progressive government Steve Jackson

homelessness Duplicitous Catholic Bishop buys $2.3 million home with church funds after pleading for parishioners to help the homeless Seamus Bellamy

serious business Freelancers moving to small towns Rob Beschizza

Business We know how to fix homelessness, we just won't do it Cory Doctorow

class war Full time minimum wage workers can't afford the rent on a 2-bedroom apartment anywhere in the USA Cory Doctorow

art Brutalist cuckoo clocks Andrea James

occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets This robot vacuum is a more affordable alternative to Roomba Boing Boing's Shop

drugs Venezuelans with transplanted organs are dying due to a lack of drugs Seamus Bellamy

America The once-dreamed wonders of trailer life Rob Beschizza

uk More than 1 in 200 Britons are homeless Cory Doctorow