boston This-City's-Makin'-A-Comeback Bingo Card Thom Dunn

video Photographer documents replanting of old rural trees in Chinese cities Andrea James

Kids Los Angeles cools street temperatures by painting them white Andrea James

Technology A guide to Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Heritage Trail David Pescovitz

climate change Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real Thom Dunn

books The beauty of sewers before the first flush David Pescovitz

corruption America's most popular governor: the lavishly corrupt Larry Hogan [R-MD] Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Learning to See the Commons David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

privacy Public treated to obfuscation at Waterfront Toronto meeting on negotiations with Google sister company over surveillance district Rosemary Frei

happy mutants Lynda Barry is a Macarthur "genius" Cory Doctorow

trump HUD Sec. Ben Carson concerned 'big, hairy men' infiltrating women's homeless shelters Xeni Jardin

canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

politics Sanders and Warren top Democratic candidates in new 2020 poll Xeni Jardin

racism Elizabeth Warren has a plan to reform "Heirs' Property," which allows wealthy white property developers to steal Black family homes Cory Doctorow

elections In California, the 2020 elections will feature an epic battle to allow cities to reinstate property taxes Cory Doctorow

uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow

language Self-driving car jargon Cory Doctorow

britain Why Essex is crap, or at least why everyone thinks it is Rob Beschizza

late stage capitalism Texas Instrument's post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering Cory Doctorow