late stage capitalism "Court guardians" kidnap old people, sell all their stuff, doom victims to pharmaceutical oblivion in institutions Cory Doctorow
california crimes Violent road-raging Tesla driver up for parole after serving less than one-year of a five-year sentence Mark Frauenfelder
cult leaders Donald Trump's "spiritual adviser" admits to molesting 12-year-old child, but keeps his job as senior pastor Carla Sinclair
intellectual property More shady legal trouble over the rights to American classic To Kill a Mockingbird Thom Dunn
violence in america Nancy Pelosi's husband hospitalized after a violent attack by home intruder [UPDATE: "Where is Nancy?" said attacker] Carla Sinclair
middlebrow shock-jocks Atlantic staff writer David Frum angers Trump voters by calling them obese drug abusers who enjoy "weirdly homoerotic fanfic images of Trump" Mark Frauenfelder
News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin
tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don't use Viagra, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan