News Funeral home sued for giving families fake ashes instead of their loved ones' cremated remains David Pescovitz
books Zena Sharman's "Queering Death" series tackles end of life care for LGBTQ+ people Elías Villoro
health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow
class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications Cory Doctorow
politics Watch Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, Mike Bloomberg speeches at 2016 DNC (Video) Xeni Jardin
funerals Have your body turned into effluent and just poured down the drain when you die Rob Beschizza