car collectors Drug-addled gentleman crashes Porsche into van and keeps going, only to break down Carla Sinclair

gambling What Steve Forte can do with a pack of cards borders on the unbelievable Ferdinando Buscema

Comics Meet these incredible collectors of the gags and novelties sold in old comics David Pescovitz

books All of Me is Illustrated celebrates the Ray Bradbury Centennial with a 21st Century take on "The Illustrated Man" Matt Maranian

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

Robert Crumb Robert Crumb's iconic "Stoned Agin!" original art up for auction Mark Frauenfelder

health In Kansas's poor, sick places, hospitals and debt collectors send the ailing to debtor's prison Cory Doctorow

elections Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow

Roadside Attractions Paul Bunyan and other fiberglass advertising giants ride again at Bell Plastics in Hayward California Janelle Hessig

Old school In 1943, the chairman of the NY Fed backed Modern Monetary Theory: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete" Cory Doctorow

Business Chase customers have ONE MONTH left to opt out of binding arbitration Cory Doctorow

scholarship Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them Cory Doctorow

privacy Bounty hunters and stalkers are able to track you in realtime by lying to your phone company and pretending to be cops Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Reflections on letterhead collecting, with accompanying (gorgeous) samples Cory Doctorow

airplanes Delta Air Lines has a monthly garage sale David Pescovitz

prison You can buy death row inmate's art at the San Quentin gift shop Rusty Blazenhoff

health New York hospitals illegally billed rape survivors for their rape kits, then sent debt-collectors after them Cory Doctorow

books Book of brutalist archictecture postcards from the Soviet era David Pescovitz

Science An astronomer's beautiful pastel drawings of the cosmos from the 19th century David Pescovitz

libraries The New York Public Library's curious collection of authors' personal items David Pescovitz