music I like Erin and her Cello Jason Weisberger

politics Carl Bernstein: Trump 'delusional' & danger to national security — McMaster, Tillerson, Bolton, Mattis, Kelly Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Is it time to finally learn to play the guitar? Now’s your chance with this bundle of lessons Boing Boing's Shop

cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow

poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

web theory Remembering the pre-Netscape browsers Cory Doctorow

health Twitter users answer the question: "When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world's libraries call for its rejection Cory Doctorow

politics HACKED: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of government officials Xeni Jardin

eu Spiegel claims ties between Germany's neofascist movement and secretive billionaire Cory Doctorow

politics German chancellor Angela Merkel to step down, but not quite yet Rob Beschizza

Games Game store accused of opening collectible card games and resealing them Rob Beschizza

News What did Trump and Putin talk about in their private G20 chat, previously undisclosed? Xeni Jardin

security Industrial robotics security is really, really terrible Cory Doctorow

Business "Global Britain": the plan to turn post-Brexit Britain into the world's money-laundering arms-dealer Cory Doctorow

Entertainment The Death of the Exorcist Richard Kaufman

uk Brexit, Chicken and Ulysses Pacts: the negotiating theory behind the UK-EU stalemate Cory Doctorow

germany German prosecutors drop investigation against comedian who insulted Turkish president Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Parasitic Souls: what if there was a tech bubble, but for magic? Kater Cheek