politics Trump to kick 700,000 Americans off food stamps just in time for holiday cruelty display Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Paul Di Filippo on Radicalized: "Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and Dickensian-Hugonian ashcan realism" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow
uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow
video New York Public Library making it easier to See Dickens' desk, Woolf's cane, and Kerouac’s boots Andrea James
tories 8 years of austerity have turned the UK into a bleak Victorian dystopia, where pensioners without electricity die from fires ignited by their candles Cory Doctorow
book reviews To Read Aloud is a portal straight to that Middle Earth where magic happens Ferdinando Buscema
Business Disney buys Fox in all-stock deal, making Rupert Murdoch the largest shareholder in the company Cory Doctorow
tories Margaret Thatcher sold off public housing to create "the dignity of ownership" and today 40% of that housing is owned by gouging landlords Cory Doctorow
