terrorism Obama sends plan to close Guantanamo Bay to Congress Rob Beschizza

video games Talking Adventure Games with Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

nyc Queens' next District Attorney is a queer, latinx Democratic Socialist who ran on a platform of "de-carceration" Cory Doctorow

eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Seamus Bellamy

television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan

fandom One hard-won rule about fandom: never, ever meet the wizard Racheline Maltese

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

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

uk Happy Chilcot Day (A Fairy Story) Charlie Fletcher

History The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes Ryan Holiday

art The story of Traceroute, about a Leitnerd's quest Thomas Kaestle

gift guide Boing Boing Gift Guide 2015 Boing Boing

offworld The queer masculinity of stealth games Riley MacLeod

offworld Her Story: a compelling murder mystery game with a tragic flaw Laura Hudson

offworld The occult gambling game giving out amulets of real gold Laura Hudson

eff Your cyberpunk games are dangerous Jon Peterson

fashion Print out this witch fashion game and play it with your friends Leigh Alexander

happy mutants Fiction: Someone to Watch Over Me Angus McIntyre

40 of the world's weirdest flowers Nadina Hughes