immigration Ready to leave America? Learn how expats traded $900k LA homes for $200k European villas Ellsworth Toohey

ireland Sinéad O'Connor dismantles the myth of the Irish "famine" Gail Sherman

Sabbath showdown: Chick-fil-A vs. New York State legislation Mark Frauenfelder

Firework disaster Terrifying firework disaster shatters peaceful suburban evening Mark Frauenfelder

Cryptozoology Burning Man's 2023 Black Rock City street names inspired by cryptozoology Jennifer Sandlin

books Invisible Man is the best book to read during Black history month Devin Nealy

white supremacy A Christian crowdfunding site has raised over $300,000 for the Kenosha shooter's legal defense fund Thom Dunn

floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow

trumpism Appeals court to Donald Trump's FCC: "Drop dead." Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt Cory Doctorow

science fiction Livejournal's Russian owners announce new anti-LGBT policy, fandom stages mass exodus Cory Doctorow

happy mutants On the bewildering regional names for corner stores Cory Doctorow

books How tragedies of the Great Depression influenced singer Woody Guthrie Wink

law America's courts are going dark Cory Doctorow

surveillance Mozilla will let go of Thunderbird Cory Doctorow

Environment The revenge of the lawn Mark Dery