music Soviet Vocal-Instrumental Ensembles: the lost, terrible pop of the USSR Cory Doctorow

Science Scientists study why people do not believe in scientific studies Elías Villoro

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

travel The Airbnb-ification of Tenochtitlán, Mexico City Elías Villoro

music Burning Bush and the early origins of Riot Grrrl Elías Villoro

History Exclusive interview with Matt LaCroix and Kaedrich Olsen about Gaia's Ancient Civilizations fourth season Devin Nealy

serious business Book: Elon Musk thinks Peter Thiel is a sociopath and Thiel thinks Musk is a fraud. Rob Beschizza

metal A guide on how to recognize Nazis in the metal scene Clive Thompson

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

Democrats Progressive Democrats in rural red districts are getting funded by lefty Silicon Valley techies Cory Doctorow

movies Ayn Rand supercharged the anti-Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood, in which the FBI classified "It's a Wonderful Life" as secret Communist propaganda Cory Doctorow

class war Leaks: Mercenaries targeted Standing Rock water protectors with anti-terrorist tactics Cory Doctorow

politics In America, "proximity and shared values" is all it takes to turn protesters into felons Cory Doctorow

politics 370 economists sign letter slamming Trump for 'magical thinking and conspiracy theories' Xeni Jardin

copyright Hakim, the Masked Gamer of Minneapolis Rob Beschizza

How remote controls program us Cætlin Benson-Allott

Prog rock: the sound of history's future Peter Bebergal