china Animated graph shows incredible difference between China and India's GDP over the last 60 years Mark Frauenfelder

uk British schoolchildren receive chemical burns from "toxic ash" on Ash Wednesday Cory Doctorow

gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The paradox of good government: the best stuff works well and is thus unnoticeable (and therefore easy to sell off) Cory Doctorow

politics Jeff Bezos announces Washington Post to promote "personal liberties and free markets" Rob Beschizza

politics Credit card fees will spike under Trump's financial deregulation Mark Frauenfelder

graphic novels Graphic novel adaptation of Thomas Piketty's "Capital & Ideology" Thom Dunn

Entertainment Conspiracy Theory Rock: The SNL cartoon that may or may not have been banned Ruben Bolling

corruption NRA president Wayne LaPierre resigns days before trial begins Rob Beschizza

marvel comics Marvel Comics has finally brought back the gun-toting animals of Brute Force Thom Dunn

MAGA logic Racist Congressman blames recent Ohio train derailments on diversity (video) Carla Sinclair

maps Redlining maps show racism and white supremacy "in 1930s technicolor" Elías Villoro

a well-regulated militia I saw this most asinine bumper sticker today on a car in Phoenix Jennifer Sandlin

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

britain Why Essex is crap, or at least why everyone thinks it is Rob Beschizza

Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow

gop Noam Chomsky takes ten minutes to explain everything you need to know about the Republican Party in 2019 Cory Doctorow

Dinos DCCC introduces No-More-AOCs rule Cory Doctorow