education Today, Michigan regulators vote on conservative education "reform" plan to purge the word "democracy" from curriculum Cory Doctorow

brainwashing Pastor claims that you are robbing God if you are not donating 10%, even if you are in debt Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance China is sending its ethnic minorities to torture camps to be brainwashed out of Islam Cory Doctorow

china Hong Kong protests: "Might as well go down fighting" Cory Doctorow

corruption Why do people believe the Earth is flat? Cory Doctorow

Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow

surveillance The New York Times's chilling multimedia package on China's use of "smart city" tech to create an open-air prison Cory Doctorow

music Retrial ordered in Led Zeppelin 'Stairway to Heaven' music copyright lawsuit Xeni Jardin

corruption Chinese spies force US-based Uighurs into "voluntary" surveillance by threatening their families in China Cory Doctorow

fake news Hillary Clinton’s funeral plans, and how to be like Donald Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart

Business Ajit Pai made a funny: leaked video shows his presentation at the Telecom Prom where he "pretends" to be a Verizon shill Cory Doctorow

trump Only Mexico City has the cojones for the Trump/They Live Billboard! Mark Frauenfelder

Weird Weird lady forces Jesus on a baby Xeni Jardin

Science When science intersected with the counterculture, things got wonderfully weird David Pescovitz

books Reminder: Neal Stephenson predicted Donald Trump in 1994 Cory Doctorow

Business Trump Casinos lost millions every single year that Donald Trump ran it (but he's still rich) Cory Doctorow