the daily show Watch Kari Lake – who blames her Pelosi joke on "creative editing" – after a real creative edit Carla Sinclair

christmas Here comes Santa Claus… in a face mask, the ornament Rusty Blazenhoff

Games How "Monopoly" took a monopoly on Lizzie Magie's Landlord Game Elías Villoro

crypto Cracked's fake NFTs stolen, for sale as real ones Rusty Blazenhoff

films Watch: Mommy Mommy, Where's My Brain? Popkin

dupe Shanghai school walks down the block on robot legs Thom Dunn

futility closet Detective novelist Arthur Upfield invented the perfect murder, then watched a killer adopt it Futility Closet

Science Wildlife tourists who mistake aggression for kissy-faces in danger of monkey-bites Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Kids explain how banned and challenged books helped them and even saved their lives Joan Bertin and Millie Davis

corruption Massive report details the surveillance powers of 12 Central and South American nations Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Benjamin Frisch's "Fun Family": good old American narcissism Cory Doctorow

Sex The millennials are all right, and so are their sex games Laura Hudson

Jack Kirby People pay $20 to enter Rage Room and destroy things with a bat Mark Frauenfelder

cuisine The Rat King: On the Fascinations (and Revulsions) of Rattus Mark Dery