Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow

Science Trump's latest senior science nominees are a talk-radio ignoramus and a career poisoner Cory Doctorow

native americans That time George Washington ordered "total destruction and devastation" of the Haudenosaunee Thom Dunn

Book World Made By Hand is a post-pandemic world novel Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet In 1822, a desperate band of convicts fleeing a Tasmanian penal colony ended up resorting to cannibalism Futility Closet

11-foot-8 Watch how the 11foot8 bridge is being raised by 8 inches Mark Frauenfelder

music In conversation: Cardi B and Bernie Sanders Cory Doctorow

Business Bird Scooter reportedly lost $100m in three months, needs more capital to stay afloat Cory Doctorow

yes they're concentration camps On the history of concentration camps, and what Trump's doing on the border Xeni Jardin

aoc Bipartisan groups call on Congress to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment, which Gingrich killed in 1995 Cory Doctorow

finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A new edition of Octavia Butler's classic postapocalyptic Afrofuturist novel "Parable of the Sower," with an introduction by Hugo winner NK Jemisin Cory Doctorow

migration U.S. government now caging asylum seekers under the international bridge in El Paso, Texas Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow

Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will pay every staffer a living wage, ending the longstanding practice of Congressional staffers taking second jobs Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism LA's teachers are ready to strike on Tuesday, rejecting privatization of public education Cory Doctorow

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

class war Unpacking the US's "low unemployment": stagnant wages, bad jobs, high incarceration, discouraged workers back in school Cory Doctorow

Business Amazon will raise its minimum wage for employees to $15 (what about contractors?) Cory Doctorow

politics President Trump falsely claims 3000 death toll in Puerto Rico is a lie Rob Beschizza