music Star-Spangled Banner played by gun sounds like freedom Andrea James

unsolved mysteries Unidentified object in Japan leaves people asking if it's a UFO…or a coronavirus contraption Carla Sinclair

racism Roger Goodell admits NFL was wrong for banning NFL players' kneeling protests of anti-Black police brutality Xeni Jardin

music Josie Cotton released a new album more than 30 years after it was recorded Matt Maranian

Hypocrites with dark secrets Trump behaves in a disrespectful manner during National Anthem, conservatives ignore it Mark Frauenfelder

sports Boos vs. 'USA!' as Trump and Melania take field for National Anthem at college football championship Xeni Jardin

politics Devin Nunes: 'It’s possible' I talked to Lev Parnas Xeni Jardin

tips Two ways to argue more effectively with a political opponent Mark Frauenfelder

Business "Christian" hospital charges its own nurse $900,000 for her premature baby Cory Doctorow

tabloids Hollywood stars too fat and too thin, and the Royal reality TV show, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

china How China ingests and adapts western culture Cory Doctorow

athletes Co-captain of the US women's national soccer team: “I’m not going to the f*cking White House.” Mark Frauenfelder

law Michael Avenatti sued over claims he pilfered paraplegic's $4 million Xeni Jardin

Цпited States Фf днлпerica Star Spangled Banner sounds Russian when played in a minor key Mark Frauenfelder

terrorism Fearing for their lives, 60,000 people have fled Nicaragua Seamus Bellamy

unlicensed barbers Teacher arrested after cutting off student's hair while singing national anthem Rob Beschizza

racism Portrait of a fake news troll and the racist retiree who believes everything he writes Cory Doctorow

class war Chinese students, made to study Communism, are rising up for workers' rights Cory Doctorow

politics After Nike hires Colin Kaepernick for ad campaign, conservative halfwits destroy own property to own the libs Rob Beschizza

surveillance China is sending its ethnic minorities to torture camps to be brainwashed out of Islam Cory Doctorow