desert Travel Tunes: Tinariwen—Kel Tinawen Séamus Bellamy

music Rachid Taha has followed Joe Strummer to rock the casbah in the hereafter Séamus Bellamy

uk Teachers on four continents stage mass strikes Cory Doctorow

security Floods of WordPress attacks traced to easily hackable, ISP-supplied routers Cory Doctorow

History Untold story of the "Acid Queen" who helped Timothy Leary escape prison Ellsworth Toohey

politics Algerian Imane Khelif wins boxing gold medal after gender questioned by Russian official, J.K Rowling and Trump Rob Beschizza

Two great bigots that go great together JD Vance joins JK Rowling in Olympic anti-trans bigotry Jason Weisberger

global warming Firefighting plane crashes in Greece, starting a new fire and killing two pilots Carla Sinclair

cute Cat jumps on imam leading prayer in mosque (video) David Pescovitz

decolonialism Frantz Fanon's Christmas Eve story Elías Villoro

colonialism New documentary: "A Very British Way of Torture." Elías Villoro

movies 1954's Salt of the Earth told a powerful story of American labor Elías Villoro

History The last place on Earth selling leaded gasoline for cars finally makes the switch Rob Beschizza

drugs Fishermen spot a half-ton of cocaine floating in the ocean David Pescovitz

Rosemary Leary describes her life as a psychedelic pioneer and her decades as a fugitive Mark Frauenfelder

indigenous peoples What's this mysterious penis-shaped island in the Pacific Ocean? Thom Dunn

security Analysis of a far-right disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the EU elections Cory Doctorow

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

videos French spy boss admits France cyberattacked Iran, Canada, Spain, Greece, Norway, Ivory Coast, Algeria, and others Cory Doctorow

books Shot in the '70s, North African Villages shows medieval villages unchanged by modernity Kevin Kelly