missouri Free-market Senator Josh Hawley demands socialism to bail out failed company Mark Frauenfelder

electricity UK ends coal power generation today after 142 years Rob Beschizza

News The New York Times: a FOX in journalists' clothing Jason Weisberger

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

News Multiple Disneyland unions authorize a strike Jason Weisberger

world news Vietnam National University says it doesn't want short people because they lack confidence Ellsworth Toohey

lifehacks 23 customer service hacks and tricks shared by Redditors Ellsworth Toohey

Emerging nations crippled by $29 trillion in debt while creditors milk surcharges Ellsworth Toohey

immigration The six bridge workers who perished were not "poisoning the blood of our country, they were replenishing it" Yoy Luadha

politics Media Matters publishes useful guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda that "represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more" Jennifer Sandlin

belgium Belgium follows France in introducing reparability index Natalie Dressed

COVID-19 CDC to announce that people with Covid can mingle freely Mark Frauenfelder

texas Austin's guaranteed basic income pilot program was a hit. A GOP state senator doesn't want it to happen in Houston Jennifer Sandlin

Journalism "We are all Spartacus if we want to be": journalist and filmmaker John Pilger dies at 84 Natalie Dressed

plagiarism Harvard president Claudine Gay denies new plagiarism charges Mark Frauenfelder

politics Trump plans to deploy military on Inauguration Day, seize government agencies, and purge critics Mark Frauenfelder

mistakes New book from UK politician has at least 20 plagiarized passages Rob Beschizza

Games Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out Rob Beschizza

labor Totally cool CEO says governments need to punish workers with unemployment to make them less arrogant Ruben Bolling

politics Russia rejects state-sponsored movie piracy, upsetting cinemas desperate to show Barbie Rob Beschizza