Old school An archive of Freedom, Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham's radical Harlem newspaper Cory Doctorow
Reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Black Panther and the Crew" is a powerfully relevant superhero story about Black lives, police brutality, and US history Thom Dunn
happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow
happy mutants A new edition of Octavia Butler's classic postapocalyptic Afrofuturist novel "Parable of the Sower," with an introduction by Hugo winner NK Jemisin Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook de-platforms 4 Myanmar armed groups. Military behind Rohingya abuse didn't like them either. Xeni Jardin
b-side The Saudis had a Khashoggi body double conspicuously leave the embassy after murder, but he wore the wrong shoes Rob Beschizza
law For the best of reasons, The Slants won the right to trademark racially offensive slurs — and now there's rather a lot of that Cory Doctorow
Comic Books New edition of the Jack Kirby Fourth World Omnibus is coming and it is 1,536 pages long! Mark Frauenfelder
censorship Leaked Facebook docs: weird censorship standards that protect "white men but not black children" Cory Doctorow
secret societies Author Brian Francis Slattery's favorite fictional secret societies Brian Francis Slattery
podcast The excellent Politically Re-Active podcast will get you through this election season Caroline Siede
