music The Library of Congress is launching an open-source archive of hip-hop samples dating back more than a century Thom Dunn

Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow

poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

Copyfight The Copyright Office's DMCA-defanging is nice, but man, there are: So. Many. Hoops to jump through Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Behold! The Library of Congress's audacious plan to digitize and share the nation's treasures Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Founder of Diamond Comic Distributors donates 3,000 comics rarities to the Library of Congress Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The old Register of Copyrights snuck a $25M fake line-item into the budget Cory Doctorow

videos Rosa Parks's papers and photos online at the Library of Congress Cory Doctorow

Science Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress Rob Beschizza

Oakland Oakland Symphony performs radical social justice song of yore Rusty Blazenhoff

punk rock Celebrate Emma Goldman's birthday (belatedly) with this radical song Thom Dunn

publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

books How to find a book without knowing the actual title Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Coronavirus destroyed U.S. job market, this chart shows how badly your state was hit Xeni Jardin

coronavirus Trump has been hesitant to invoke the Defense Production Act for medical gear. But he's already used it hundreds of thousands of times for weapons and bombs. Thom Dunn

coronavirus Can a fart give you coronavirus? Carla Sinclair

squirrels US federal government agency issues a very important warning about the … Squirrel Realm? Thom Dunn

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

Technology Augmented reality contact lenses get real David Pescovitz

elections Pete Buttigieg's prizewinning high-school essay praising Bernie Sanders: "the power to win back the faith of a voting public weary and wary of political opportunism" Cory Doctorow