Comics EXCLUSIVE: introducing "The Dusk," a new superhero for dads who realize Batman is not the best role model Thom Dunn
human rights No Más Bebés: a documentary about forced sterilizations of women of color in California Elías Villoro
police San Francisco will start paying people $300/month not to shoot anyone (or get shot) David Pescovitz
war on the impoverished Judge releases 76-year-old woman who was imprisoned for missing a phone call Mark Frauenfelder
News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin
prison Watch a video of my prison and opioids play "Streets Like This," performed by actors who have all dealt with incarceration Thom Dunn
Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
law South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow
Business The DoJ's corporate "diversion" program is supposed to change bad corporate culture, but really, it enables repeat offenders Cory Doctorow
elections Elizabeth Warren publishes a massive, detailed plan for addressing the injustice of US relations with indigenous American peoples Cory Doctorow
Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow
human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow