News Norma McCorvey dead at 69; anonymous 'Jane Roe' plaintiff in Roe v. Wade abortion case Xeni Jardin

politics Norma "Roe v. Wade" McCorvey was paid by conservatives to pretend to turn against abortion Rob Beschizza

happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow

gender AOC to endorse Bernie Sanders today Cory Doctorow

happy mutants 2019 Hugo Award finalists announced Cory Doctorow

politics Jabba the Hutt, Bruce Wayne, John Cleese among interns praised in Trump's Economic Report of the President Xeni Jardin

happy mutants The BBC on Afrofuturism Cory Doctorow

book reviews To Read Aloud is a portal straight to that Middle Earth where magic happens Ferdinando Buscema

science fiction Top science fiction writers imagine a flight that accidentally jumps to the year 2037 Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya

media Stories from the alternate universe inhabited by the tabloid magazines Peter Sheridan

Games Black women are already superheroes Sidney Fussell

rape culture The Jackie Fox rape disclosure shows we still have a lot to learn Maureen Herman

interviews Wim Wenders: Looking back on the road ahead Aaron Stewart-Ahn

copyright The twisted history of the Happy Birthday song—and the copyright shenanigans that keep it profitable Glenn Fleishman

Disney Princesses Are My (Imperfect) Feminist Role Models Caroline Siede

DRONES How Dan Shapiro created the most-backed game in Kickstarter history Mark Frauenfelder