television Excellent collection of Soviet television computer graphics from the 1980s David Pescovitz

war Russia just declassified this film of the world's largest nuclear bomb David Pescovitz

dolls Barbie and Ken re-imagined as Soviet citizens living in Cold War USSR Gareth Branwyn

trains Gorgeous photos of Soviet subway stations Clive Thompson

books Book of brutalist archictecture postcards from the Soviet era David Pescovitz

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

Soviet Union A too-typical tragedy of science in the Soviet Union Miss Cellania

Audio When people used to press bootleg recordings onto X-Rays to pass around Soviet Russia Thom Dunn

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

anxiety A handy pamphlet for coping with extra-dimensional anxiety Thom Dunn

china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism America today feels like the last days of the Soviet Union Cory Doctorow

Games The strange tale of Runescape's Communist republic Cory Doctorow

Dungeons & Dragons What's new in tabletop gaming (June edition) Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

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

uk The UK is finally cracking down on its Russian money-laundry, but hasn't hired people to do the job Cory Doctorow

anthropogenics Intelligent engineering and planning brings (some) life back to the Aral Sea Clive Thompson

linguistics The war over apostrophes in Kazakhstan's new alphabet Clive Thompson

russia Scotland is still a financial secrecy exporter, laundering billions for Russia's crime-bosses and oligarchs Cory Doctorow