new orleans Will Katrina victims ever get settlement money from Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation? Natalie Dressed

homelessness New Orleans reduced homelessness by 90% (and saved a fortune) by giving homeless people homes Cory Doctorow

Games Catfishing is the Wikipedia guessing game I can't stop playing Grant St. Clair

music Get into the SKAlloween spirit Thom Dunn

conspiracy theories Marjorie Taylor Greene says "They" control the weather and caused Hurricane Helene Allan Rose Hill

Caribbean Hurricane Beryl spares one house on Union Island. It's made of plywood and irony Natalie Dressed

hurricane Hurricane Beryl hits category 5 Rob Beschizza

donald trump Facing racketeering charges, Trump-worshipping pastor turns to "MAGA Honey" sales Mark Frauenfelder

Delightful Creatures The soothing survival sleeping sounds of sneezing seal's non-stick lungs Elías Villoro

Heavy Metal 'Walking on Sunshine,' but heavy metal Rusty Blazenhoff

Cassandra Sentinel intelligence, explained Jennifer Sandlin

florida Child rapist admits trying to fake own death to avoid punishment Rob Beschizza

tabloids Kamala Backstabs Biden in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids America in chaos in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

weather Hurricane Ida lays waste to New Orleans and Louisiana, weakens into Mississippi Rob Beschizza

civil forfeiture The DEA seized an innocent man's life savings without charging him with a crime Mark Frauenfelder

funerals You can now legally compost dead bodies in Washington state Thom Dunn