happy mutants The Women's March and the Judean People's Front: After Occupy, after trumpism, a new networked politics Cory Doctorow

tabloids Penis fish, Simon Cowell’s missing boobs, and Hillary Clinton’s gay flings, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

normalizing racism Ex-GOP staffer who racially assaulted black woman and wrote for white supremacist site VDare now writes for WSJ, Forbes Xeni Jardin

politics A list of Steve King's worst remarks: Racist, shocking, and just plain stupid Xeni Jardin

Democrats The Democratic Party is surging thanks to leftist policies, but its leadership are convinced they have to stop it Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Democrats Progressive Democrats are using small-money donations to outraise establishment opponents with deep-pocketed millionaire backers Cory Doctorow

elections How Momentum UK learned from the Sanders Campaign to make Jeremy Corbyn Prime-Minister-in-Waiting Cory Doctorow

futurism A futurist looks to the past to understand the present "Gutenberg Moment" David Pescovitz

media “Mainstream media is the Real Fake News!” says National Enquirer Peter Sheridan

politics 370 economists sign letter slamming Trump for 'magical thinking and conspiracy theories' Xeni Jardin

elections Netroots 3.0: Bernie Sanders' army of volunteer coders Cory Doctorow

Republicans Robot Rubio repeats same line four times, even after being mocked Rob Beschizza

novels Excerpt from The Biographies of Ordinary People, by Nicole Dieker Nicole Dieker

movies The rise and fall of Vampira, dark goddess of horror W. Scott Poole

William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God Mark Dery