mistakes Investigator claims U.S. intelligence unit had attempted to "recruit" two 9/11 hijackers Elías Villoro

Business Casual dining in decline in America—or maybe just the decrepit chains your parents loved Rob Beschizza

podcasts How the "Death of Superman" comics explain the modern Democratic Party Thom Dunn

AI Send the conspiracy theorists in your life to the Debunk Bot Jennifer Sandlin

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

gop RNC chairperson thinks global economic chaos will help the Republican party Jason Weisberger

artificial intelligence Someone programmed a bot to order thousands of McSundaes every 30 minutes to find out which machines are broken. Thom Dunn

facebook UK ICO report on Cambridge Analytica finds no illegal activity or Russian involvement Thom Dunn

guns The Navajo Nation is trying to buy up a major US gun manufacturer Thom Dunn

spooks 900 pages of leaked Iranian spy cables reveal how America's failures after invasions allowed Iran to seize control of Iraqi politics Cory Doctorow

climate New Zealand's domestic spies, obsessed with illegally surveilling environmental activists, missed a heavily armed right-wing terrorist Cory Doctorow

corruption Trump's spy agencies say AI vendors will sell them needle-detection tools for infinite haystacks Cory Doctorow

trump Read the Trump team's pathetic anti-Comey talking points Xeni Jardin

happy mutants A Good American: a documentary about Bill Binney, an NSA whistleblower who says 9/11 could have been prevented Cory Doctorow

corruption Snowden for drones: The Intercept's expose on US drone attacks, revealed by a new leaker Cory Doctorow

Disney Princesses Are My (Imperfect) Feminist Role Models Caroline Siede

nsa Airport as a Homeland: Snowden Jasmina Tesanovic