trumpism Trump's ICE snitch-line is full of people secretly trying to deport their in-laws Cory Doctorow

medicine A summary of recent research into Long Covid Elías Villoro

History A brief history of the selfie Jennifer Sandlin

tabloids Obama Public Enemy No.1 in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

fox news A Brief History of the War on Christmas Thom Dunn

books An excerpt from "Bullshit Jobs," David Graeber's forthcoming book about the rise of useless work Cory Doctorow

Business Troubles loom for patent trolls who rent sovereign immunity from Native American tribes Cory Doctorow

Business Equifax was always dirty, it bills the US government for millions, and was repeatedly hacked Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Pharma giant Allergan pays Mohawk tribe to serve as human shields against patent challenges Cory Doctorow

spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow

trump Dan Rather: The number of press praising Trump's Syria air strikes "as 'presidential' is concerning" Xeni Jardin

usausausa America's institutions can preserve liberty, but they're also pretty good at destroying it Cory Doctorow

privacy A madman has been given the keys to the surveillance state Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that's coming to LED bulbs. Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Judenstaat: an alternate history in which a Jewish state is created in east Germany in 1948 Cory Doctorow

books To Do in L.A.: 'God's Eye View' author Barry Eisler in conversation with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin

science fiction The Android's Prehistoric Menagerie A Merc Rustad

lethem The Ecstasist: A Conversation with the Novelist Jonathan Lethem Mark Dery

yanss How the Halo Effect turns uncertainty into false certainty David McRaney

science fiction Describing the indescribable with Jeff Vandermeer Peter Mendelsund