spotify Listen to James Baldwin's record collection on Spotify Janelle Hessig

racism Ken Burns: our monuments are representations of myth, not fact Séamus Bellamy

maga Trump Jr. baffles with nonsensical diatribe in street interview Mark Frauenfelder

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

nyc "Museum of the Revolution" documentary is a brutal monument to predatory capitalism Greg Nussen

berkeley Check out Malcolm X's interview at Berkeley Devin Nealy

books This is the best book of the past 125 years, according to New York Times Book Review readers David Pescovitz

broadway Watch the trailer and a clip from David Byrne's 'American Utopia' Andrea James

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

public archives A Studs Terkel Radio Archive will soon be public Jason Weisberger

civil rights James Baldwin trounces William F. Buckley (1965) Jason Weisberger

politics Alec Baldwin Is President Millard Fillmore's Doppelgänger Red Scott

History The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes Ryan Holiday

books Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me" is the next book you should read Cory Doctorow