police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow

politics Amid intense controversy, Kanye releases album to relatively modest fanfare Grant St. Clair

aviation Pilots analyze that near-miss at Chicago Midway airport (video) Gail Sherman

protest Group of Blue Men protest corporate labor actions Thom Dunn

stowaways Two people found dead in JetBlue wheel well in Florida: "This keeps happening" Carla Sinclair

Study shows speed cameras unbiased, Chicago cops racist Jason Weisberger

stunts Who put maggots in the Democratic National Convention breakfast buffet? Rob Beschizza

politics Newsom, Whitmer and Buttigieg all back Kamala Harris for President Rob Beschizza

Guided by Voices interviewed on their 30-year-old EP that became a cult classic  Lee Keeler

COVID-19 Don't let Covid ruin your vacation! Here's a great guide to avoiding Covid on airplanes Jennifer Sandlin

education Harvard University will no longer issue official statements on public matters unrelated to its academic core Yoy Luadha

politics Eight facts about hemp-hating, Hitler-heiling MAGA weirdo Mary Miller Mark Frauenfelder

unruly gentlemen Passengers tackle a man on American Airlines who pulled the emergency door handle (video) Carla Sinclair

Don't try to print it On exactitude in PDFs Rob Beschizza

gadgets Fixing Macs door to door in the 2000s Rob Beschizza

newspapers The Arizona Daily Star collaborates with local artists to turn newspaper into wrapping paper Jennifer Sandlin

police Surveillance startups feast on America's bloated police budgets Rob Beschizza

music Here's a primer on the far-out sounds of free jazz David Pescovitz

police brutality Chicago police accused of sexually assaulting young asylum seekers Mark Frauenfelder

law "Cult mom" given three consecutive life sentences for killing her kids Rob Beschizza