News Dog-killer Noem tries a new excuse: I was protecting my children Mark Frauenfelder

politics Study: bigots who hate one marginalized group increasingly hate all of them Rob Beschizza

Science Bad childhoods don't create comic book villians Gail Sherman

crime FBI busts $44M publishing scam that preyed on aspiring authors Ellsworth Toohey

wales Llawgnychu! It's ok to Cymru to Welsh fairy porn Rob Beschizza

ebooks 10 free radical ebooks to help you plan for the next 4 years Thom Dunn

70's video games Explore the deep and distant past of Intellivision Bob Knetzger

NASA Ceres may be an "ocean world" only 18 months from home Rob Beschizza

fantasy Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N" in a revised, expanded edition Gareth Branwyn

writing Stephen King's shameless self-promotion on NY Times' "best books" list amuses and outrages Natalie Dressed

books Book bans tend to target children's books with "diverse" characters Rob Beschizza

Space Space piracy conference to be held at US Naval Academy Allan Rose Hill

typography 8 weird punctuation marks that faded from the English language Sam Barton

censorship Ed Scare: book bans spreading across America, driven by conservative rage Rob Beschizza

movie reviews "Civil War" is an isolating, information-starved psychological horror Roy Christopher

science fiction Review: Paul Di Filippo trips the multiverse fantastic in "Vangie's Ghosts" Gareth Branwyn

walt whitman Happy Easter! Read most every surviving scrap of paper Walt Whitman wrote on in the Whitman Sampler Natalie Dressed

romance novels I touch my elf: the rise of "romantasy," with sex, supernatural encounters, and strong heroines Carolyn Townsend

books Leaked emails show works were excluded from Hugo Awards over China concerns Ruben Bolling