books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro
History The long arc of counter-revolution to fascism, according to historian Gerald Horne Elías Villoro
tabloids New Clinton sex scandal, and Ghislaine Maxwell's psych report in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
manga Yoshiharu Tsuge: the first manga artist who used his personal life as story material Mark Frauenfelder
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
burning man The BLM's Burning Man environmental impact statement is terrible, calls for drug searches, dumpsters, and a 19,000,000lb concrete wall Cory Doctorow
canada Russia-linked hacker Karim Baratov gets 5 years in U.S. prison & $250,000 fine for Yahoo breach Xeni Jardin
burning man There's a semi-secret Burning Man calendar that you can (shockingly) buy Rusty Blazenhoff