cuba "Sonic attacks" on US embassy in Cuba may actually have been insecticide poisoning David Pescovitz

venezuela Bolton unveils extreme foreign policy changes in Central & South America days after autocrat Bolsonaro takes power in Brazil Seamus Bellamy

music Discover the joy of watching a guitarist hear Stevie Ray Vaughan for the first time Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants So It Is: a Cuban-inspired album from the astounding Preservation Hall Jazz Band Cory Doctorow

picks Fidel Castro, former Cuban president, is dead at 90 Xeni Jardin

cuba Castro's Cuba – 50 years later, the island nation is still Castro country Ben Marks

cuba What's inside a fake Cuban cigar? Rob Beschizza

Business Cuba's free med schools are the meritocratic institutions that America's private system can't match Cory Doctorow

cuba A brief visit to Cuba Lars Forseti

DIY Adhesive nose bridge strips for DIY face masks help keep my glasses clear Jason Weisberger

racism Lawyer for gun-toting St. Louis couple describes his clients as "melanin-deficient human beings" Thom Dunn

activism Goodbye to the racist statue of Roosevelt and two people of color outside NYC's Natural History Museum David Pescovitz

History Jayne Mansfield: Viral Warrior Matt Maranian

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Business Facebook is buying Giphy in deal valued at $400 million Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Abolish Silicon Valley: memoir of a driven startup founder who became an anti-capitalist activist Cory Doctorow