Harry Truman Archives - Boing Boing Staging

racism LIFE revisits 1950s "fad" for Confederate flags Andrea James

turtles Flying turtle smashes through Georgia driver's windshield Thom Dunn
music THE BUREAU: Part Six, The History of Telepathic Infant-Based Mind Control of U.S. Presidents Ethan Persoff
trumpism Leaked document shows Trump officials planning to force Americans to spend $311m-$11.8b/year to keep unprofitable coal and nuclear energy plants from shutting Cory Doctorow
History Hurricane Maria started in 1898: how America spent more than a century brutalizing Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow
animation Chuck Jones directed this Oscar-winning government-funded cartoon promoting universal health care (1949) Mark Frauenfelder
authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous
movies Watch: movie directors using color to mess with your mind David Pescovitz
U.S. State Department email systems hacked Xeni Jardin
Science Read a moving account of surviving (and dying on) Mount St. Helens Maggie Koerth
News The hilarity of CNN + Fox's bungled Health Care Act reporting, in a single 'shoop Xeni Jardin
Funny Oh, Qrap Glenn Fleishman
Art and Design Those wonderful Mold-A-Rama machines Mark Frauenfelder
Science The Lessons of Mount St. Helens Maggie Koerth
Culture A Mental_Floss Thanksgiving Maggie Koerth
Happy Mutants Zombie Street Fashion Maggie Koerth
Book On the Road with Kesey and Truman William Gurstelle
politics Krassner: Stewart was right the first time Douglas Rushkoff
politics Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who've served as vice-president of the USA Cory Doctorow
Civlib Declassified doc shows Hoover planned mass jailing in 1950 Xeni Jardin