courts Study: U.S. judges give harsher sentences when their football team loses Thom Dunn

art This talented courtroom artist has drawn the trials of John Gotti, Martha Stewart, and Donald Trump David Pescovitz

law Judge tells jury to acquit accused sex trafficker because God said she's innocent David Pescovitz

History Every day is Columbus Day for indigenous peoples Elías Villoro

LGBTQ Vermont on track to ban the gay-, trans-panic defense Jess Sabine

multitasking Surgeon joins Zoom meeting while his patient lies on operating table Clive Thompson

Technology Teenagers interview A.I experts about the future of thinking machines David Pescovitz

china Hong Kong bans makeup and masks so facial recognition cameras can identify protesters Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow

trumpism Molly Crabapple's illustrated report from the immigration detention Gulags of Texas Cory Doctorow

trumpism Trump's Acting Attorney General was an active participant in a scam company that marketed "masculine toilets" Cory Doctorow

law Georgia Republican introduces legislation to kill PACER, the outrageous paywall around the US justice system Cory Doctorow

protests Standing up by sitting down: the overlooked power of the sit-in Maureen Herman

Business Wells Fargo: preventing the customers we ripped off from suing us is doing them a favor Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets The Amazon reviews for a phone designed for rectal smuggling are pretty interesting reading Cory Doctorow

crime Obama's legacy: eight years of not holding executives criminally responsible for their companies' misdeeds Cory Doctorow

Sex The millennials are all right, and so are their sex games Laura Hudson

A Short History of Game Panics Jesse Walker