movies VHS horror movies are corrupting our children! A "20/20 Special Report" from 1987 David Pescovitz

trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow

History Hurricane Maria started in 1898: how America spent more than a century brutalizing Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow

apple NYU grad student goes undercover in Chinese iPhone factory and it ain't pretty Carla Sinclair

censorship Watch Pages of Death, the long-lost anti-porn public information film Rob Beschizza

Vintage Weird Bizarre illustrations from old men's adventure magazines Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Jailer-owned "Christian business" forced inmates to make cornhole games Mark Frauenfelder

deaths Feminist scholar Maria Mies dead at 92 Elías Villoro

colonialism Puerto Ricans resist disaster capitalists and "Puertopians" in Hurricane Maria's wake Elías Villoro

law Is former San Francisco fire commissioner Don Carmignani the Marina District vigilante? Elías Villoro

cryptocurrency Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: a refreshingly hopeful finance thriller about cryptocurrency Thom Dunn

music The Swedish rock album that came with a supplemental reading list Elías Villoro

unions What happens when your employer is a union and staff goes on strike? Elías Villoro

documentary "Longest Third Date" is a Netflix documentary with a short shelf life Greg Nussen

paris Monumental Yayoi Kusama installations at Louis Vuitton stores in Paris Jennifer Sandlin

books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

Twitter "insiders" tell BBC that child porn, hate material and state-sponsored disinformation "thriving" under Musk Rob Beschizza