vote Former US President Carter asks Georgia Secretary of State Kemp to resign Jason Weisberger

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fbi Newly released documents show that the FBI used standard FBI tactics on Michael Flynn Thom Dunn

music Music: 'Trying Times,' Roberta Flack Xeni Jardin

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music Shut-in sounds: 33 of the best industrial albums Gareth Branwyn

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coronapocalypse Shut-in celebrities sing "imagine no possessions" on Twitter. Twitterverse goes bananas over the perceived tone-deafness Gareth Branwyn

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

farts Fart noises disrupt Snooker Masters Finals: "Not very funny at all" Rusty Blazenhoff

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restaurants Behind the velvet rope hierarchies of NYC restaurant reservations David Pescovitz

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

music Listen to Brian Eno's beautiful cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" David Pescovitz

weed Argument over marijuana leads to hit-and-run Mark Frauenfelder

law 39 Chinese nationals found dead in UK truck, driver charged with murder Rob Beschizza