junk science Oil and tobacco lobbyist blames Trans-Atlantic slave trade on wind Thom Dunn

finance Comcast fights shareholder call for lobbying transparency, saying that it would be "burdensome" to reveal how much it spends lobbying states Cory Doctorow

banking GOP wants to get rid of overdraft fee limits Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Right to repair is under assault in New York, and you can save it! Cory Doctorow

government Meet the only lobbyist pushing for US government "disclosure" of E.T. visitation David Pescovitz

lobbying "Zinc lobby" preventing retirement of penny Rob Beschizza

Science Gun lobby has opposed research on effects of gun ownership/gun laws Maggie Koerth

anime Single with no kids? This dating sim can help do your taxes Rusty Blazenhoff

bbc BBC won't broadcast Attenborough episode on destruction of wildlife over fear of right-wing backlash Gareth Branwyn

Marjorie "Jewish Space Lasers" Greene Marjorie Taylor Greene tells another lie about "Jewish space lasers" Mark Frauenfelder

politics New York passed the nation's first right-to-repair law. Pleasing tech lobbyists, Governor Kathy Hochul hasn't signed it Rob Beschizza

racism Student loans as a strategy for social control Elías Villoro

History The last Salem "witch" has been cleared Devin Nealy

rudy Famously inebriated presidential advisor rapidly recants admission of guilt Jason Weisberger

failed experiments New poll reveals that most Democrats and Republicans agree that America will "cease to be a democracy" in the future, and is headed for civil war Mark Frauenfelder

law Ed Sheeran assails copyright claim "culture" after winning Shape Of You case Rob Beschizza

block Payment software company Square changed its name to 'Block' this month. Now H&R Block is suing them. Annie Rauwerda

peta CVS drugstores will no longer sell greeting cards with great apes on them Mark Frauenfelder

politics Sleaze: the British media euphemism for British corruption Rob Beschizza