politics Can a game show us what would happen under far-right rule? Leigh Alexander

music Why The Animals' Eric Burdon is OK with Trump using "House of the Rising Sun" David Pescovitz

black lives matter "Promissory Note" marries MLK's moving words with music and imagery Andrea James

Technology U.S. is investigating claims that TikTok violated children's privacy Xeni Jardin

statues The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids Thom Dunn

facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder

Business Facebook ad boycott includes Ben & Jerry's, REI, Patagonia, North Face, Eddie Bauer Xeni Jardin

censorship Bowing to China, Zoom deactivated accounts of US-based activists Xeni Jardin

Business Investigation into TikTok as risk to U.S. children's privacy urged by 4 U.S. senators Xeni Jardin

china Beijing to base China security agencies in Hong Kong Xeni Jardin

protest flavors New "tear gas" ice cream flavor in Hong Kong makes it hard to breathe Carla Sinclair

books Snowden's Box: the incredible, illuminating story of the journey of Snowden's hard drive Cory Doctorow

COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

art English resort town to get giant white palm tree sculpture Rob Beschizza

Business Trump campaign buys '$1M+ a day' YouTube election day masthead ads: Reports Xeni Jardin

law Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months (3 years + 4 months) in prison Xeni Jardin

Trump calls Roger Stone's proposed sentence a "terrible miscarriage of justice" Mark Frauenfelder

prison Why aren't more conservatives concerned about felon voting rights? Thom Dunn

china Hong Kong shoppers patronize "yellow" stores that support the uprising; while "blue" businesses that support the mainland are vandalized Cory Doctorow

politics The 2010s were the decade of Citizens United Cory Doctorow