corruption UC Davis Chancellor spent $400K+ to scrub her online reputation after pepper-spray incident Cory Doctorow

politics Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student Xeni Jardin

covid 39,327 new Covid cases on America's worst day yet for new infections Rob Beschizza

music New book about the books that changed David Bowie's life David Pescovitz

movies Actor Danny Aiello has died at 86 Xeni Jardin

language The Yiddish roots of "glitch" David Pescovitz

health People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" Cory Doctorow

Democrats Wealthy Dems and their backers hate Bernie (and Warren) for the same reason they hated Kucinich: he wants to tax the rich Cory Doctorow

elections Elizabeth Warren's latest campaign plank is a national Right-to-Repair law for farm equipment Cory Doctorow

books The Myth of Capitalism: an ardent capitalist decries monopoly Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

Republicans GOP candidate for Pennsylvania governor to his opponent: "I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes." Carla Sinclair

science fiction What the world would be like if land and sea were inverted Rob Beschizza

art Beautiful sculptures made entirely of store-bought nails Andrea James

trumpism The National Enquirer is in the tank for Trump Cory Doctorow

live fast die young How musicians die Andrew Cartmel

happy mutants A Crooked Timber seminar on Walkaway Cory Doctorow

Games The 20 games you shouldn't miss in 2016 Brandon Boyer

snowden Real-world whistleblowing vs Malcolm Gladwell's bizarre theory of whistleblowing Cory Doctorow