homelessness Vending machines to offer free items to NYC's homeless people Rusty Blazenhoff

Food Collectives and non-profits feed the hungry. Some people want to make it illegal. Elías Villoro

tabloids Ron DeSantis tortured POWs, and Hollywood's worst celebrity neighbors, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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science fiction Octavia Butler's Kindred to premiere on Hulu on December 13 Elías Villoro

graphic novels "The Box" and "Flying Kites" shed light on incarceration in America Elías Villoro

killer whales Humpback whales and their killer whale nemesis Andrew Yi

nutrition Great new podcast about the controversial F-Factor diet Jennifer Sandlin

"principled conservatism" More than 120 Republicans met in a zoom call to talk about forming a third party Carla Sinclair

illustrations The NY Times presents 74 of its "favorite facts" for 2020 Mark Frauenfelder

psychology Vaccine delivery footage considered as unboxing videos Clive Thompson

Games Review / Among Trees Rob Beschizza

Games Play a "The Thing"-like monster in this free demo of Carrion Rob Beschizza

trump Regardless of whether it ends his term, impeaching Trump have five likely benefits Cory Doctorow

finance Here's how the Pentagon swindled Congress with $21 trillion worth of undocumented, untraceable, unaccounted for expenditures Cory Doctorow

usausausa Prisoners in 17 states are on strike, demanding an end to prison slavery and basic human justice Cory Doctorow

youtube YouTube Face: the same thumbnail on every video Rob Beschizza

bandwidth A web magazine you can read only if you turn off your wifi Clive Thompson

out of control Frankenstein considered as a novel about climate catastrophe Clive Thompson

1990s The glorious inelegance of the 1990s family computer Jess Kimble Leslie