hamilton Weird Al's latest is a Hamildrop: Listen to 'The Hamilton Polka' Rusty Blazenhoff

picks Lin-Manuel Miranda's childhood home movies show him busting out dance moves Rusty Blazenhoff

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

travel My life on the road: Marrakesh Seamus Bellamy

Delightful Creatures When police respond to call of a neighbor screaming "Let me out!" laughter is had by all Carla Sinclair

tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

china Hong Kong protests: "Might as well go down fighting" Cory Doctorow

politics Read the whistleblower complaint about Donald Trump Rob Beschizza

Kids Apple removed a teen's award-winning anti-Trump game "Bad Hombre" because they can't tell the difference between apps that criticize racism and racist apps Cory Doctorow

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

politics Trustbusting is now a bipartisan issue Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

prison You can buy death row inmate's art at the San Quentin gift shop Rusty Blazenhoff

psychedelic A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam Jason Weisberger

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn

News Bill Cosby jailed for 3 to 10 years after judge rules hims a "sexually violent predator" Rob Beschizza

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

News Trump-Putin in Helsinki: Transcript and Video Xeni Jardin

music The Beatles' "White Album" demos: listen and learn David Pescovitz

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle