carceral state The Corrections Project documentary series tackles America's carceral state 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
Vintage Weird Beyond the Dark Veil – beautifully macabre collection of Victorian post-mortem photography Gareth Branwyn
Business Anonymous funeral director explains the big con behind the industry, coffins, and embalming Cory Doctorow
books Seduction of the Innocent: detective novel set during anti-comic book hysteria of the 1950s Mark Frauenfelder