new york city A day in NY in the early 1980s through the eyes of musicians, artists, activists, filmmakers, and more Gareth Branwyn
education Kentucky's Whitefield Academy expels student for wearing a rainbow shirt in a Facebook photo Cory Doctorow
poverty Minnesota high school threw away hot lunches for students with over $15 of lunch debt Mark Frauenfelder
education NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt Cory Doctorow
tabloids The Obamas split, the Queen’s bag of blood, and, oh yes, WWIII is coming, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan
happy mutants Al Jaffee's MAD Life: how a traumatized kid from the shtetl became an American satire icon Cory Doctorow
privacy Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon told to stop selling kids' school supplies that contain over 80 times the legal limit of lead Xeni Jardin
trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow
privacy The Chinese government is putting tracking chips into school uniforms to watch every move kids make Seamus Bellamy
Copyfight "Free is not fair" won't make authors richer, but fixing publishers' contracts will Cory Doctorow
Business Bernie Sanders' new bill will force companies to reimburse governments for low-paid employees' welfare costs Cory Doctorow
News Parkland victim's dad says Kavanaugh walked away from him, wouldn't shake his hand today Carla Sinclair