typography Tools to replace swear words with grawlixes: symbols suggesting anger and obscenity Rob Beschizza
immigration Homeland Security labelled a group of volunteer doctors as "radical political activists" Thom Dunn
cuba "Sonic attacks" on US embassy in Cuba may actually have been insecticide poisoning David Pescovitz
tabloids Celebrity grave-digging, flesh-eating bacteria and alien abductions in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
economics Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz on how the US economy became a "rigged, inherited plutocracy" and how to fix it Cory Doctorow
News Bill Cosby jailed for 3 to 10 years after judge rules hims a "sexually violent predator" Rob Beschizza
politics 'Family detention' existed under Obama, too. But systematically separating kids is all new. Xeni Jardin
late stage capitalism The US workforce is the most productive, best educated in history and unemployment is at an all-time low, but wages are stagnant Cory Doctorow
fake news Las Vegas gunman’s hooker, Hillary Clinton’s lies, and Jerry Lewis’s forged will in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan
decompression sickness Peruvian fisherman’s body inflates after surfacing from dive too quickly Robert Spallone
