Innovation Listen: Inspiring commencement speech from Astro Teller, X's captain of moonshots David Pescovitz

john waters John Waters gives an in-quarantine, green-screened commencement speech Rusty Blazenhoff

california Valedictorian ruthlessly rips apart adults who didn't help her succeed Rusty Blazenhoff

plagiarism High school student claims principal plagiarized Ashton Kutcher for graduation speech David Pescovitz

humor "Be yourself. Unless 'yourself' is an asshole": David Sedaris delivers Oberlin's commencement speech Rusty Blazenhoff

florida Jimmy Fallon surprised Parkland high school grads by speaking at their commencement ceremony Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutant "Failure is fuel": Abby Wambach summons "Wolf Pack" in commencement speech Rusty Blazenhoff

transparency FDAAA Trials Tracker: leaderboard for pharma companies that break FDA clinical trial rules Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Now with Extra Monsters): At Least One Monster Per Paragraph! This Is Our Guarantee! Marc Laidlaw

corruption The Sackler Family: best known for philanthropy, they made billions promoting Oxycontin Cory Doctorow

bside Sassy Trump at the Coast Guard commencement Jason Weisberger

videos Improv Everywhere: asking random New Yorkers to give a commencement speech Cory Doctorow

hillary clinton What Hillary Clinton sounded like 47 years ago Carla Sinclair

native americans Oklahoma public school allows Navajo student to wear moccasins at graduation Jason Weisberger

politics Ben Carson has nutty theories about the Egyptian pyramids David Pescovitz

rape Rapist Bill Cosby admitted under oath ten years ago to getting drugs to give women for sex Xeni Jardin

leonard cohen Brilliant USC commencement speech on Leonard Cohen, turning off tech, and potato chips Dan Ruderman

Army doctor who trained U.S. troops suspended for macabre, ketamine-assisted sexual experiments Xeni Jardin

art Watch: John Waters gave the 2015 commencement address at RISD and CRUSHED IT Cory Doctorow

America's Class of 2015 have spent more than half their lives at war. Xeni Jardin