david bowie For the song's 40th anniversary, Depeche Mode covers David Bowie's 'Heroes' Rusty Blazenhoff

music The ongoing legacies of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Elías Villoro

guns Ronald Reagan on Gun Control circa 1989 Elías Villoro

racism "Hiding (insert city name)'s Racism Behind a Cloak of Unity." Elías Villoro

john prine Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, and Billy Bragg sing a John Prine classic in this live performance from 1990 Jennifer Sandlin

mistakes Jones College Prep student dresses as Nazi, goose steps across stage during assembly, gets booed by fellow students Jennifer Sandlin

berlin Monsterkabinett, an eccentric and essential Berlin offering Natalie Dressed

Art and Design These odd NSA motivational posters from the 1960s look like props from The Prisoner Mark Frauenfelder

music The MC5 are back to kick out more jams, motherf**er. David Pescovitz

spies Recently declassified documents there was an actual MI-6 agent in the 60s named James Bond Thom Dunn

podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

law How to steal money at an ATM if you don't have a skimmer Rob Beschizza

music David Bowie's 11th studio album, "Low," is 42 today Gareth Branwyn

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

generative art Reshuffling the epigrammatic phrases of Eno/Schmidt's Oblique Strategies into Grotesque Tables Gareth Branwyn

cia torture CIA nominee ran a secret torture prison and destroyed evidence of it Mark Frauenfelder

uk Berlin regulates Airbnb and safely deflates its housing bubble while returning 8,000 rentals to the market Cory Doctorow

podcasts Is progress inevitable? David McRaney

science fiction Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows us how science fiction predicts the present and shapes the future Cory Doctorow

photography Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany's legendary, paranoid secret police Cory Doctorow