Japan When Madness starred in early 80s Japanese ads for Honda Rusty Blazenhoff

malls Watch a crowded escalator fail spectacularly Jason Weisberger

books The best "paranoid science fiction" books David Pescovitz

music Watch the music video that's making karens and qanon hysterical about Adult Swim today Rob Beschizza

ska Madness performs with a string quartet from their "London lock up" Rusty Blazenhoff

trump Why Trump's naked corruption is less interesting than conspiracy theories about Clinton Rob Beschizza

art Artist traps AI in RAM prison, forces it to contemplate its own mortality Ellsworth Toohey

toronto Guillermo del Toro bringing horror film festival to Toronto Séamus Bellamy

Entertainment First look: Super Nintendo World brings video game magic to Universal Orlando Ruben Bolling

music Synthy post-punk from MSPAINT (no, not from Microsoft) Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

music Snõõper's "egg punk" musical madness Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

Science A strange trick to silence an earworm Allan Rose Hill

politics Incompetence reigns supreme: Trump calls wrong person Jason Weisberger

Get your Enemies of Democracy trading cards! Collect 'em all! Ruben Bolling

hypotheticals Obama would clobber Trump in 3rd-term presidential run, says new poll Carla Sinclair

schoolyard bullies Trump stops golfing to ridicule reporter asking about tariffs: "Your question is so stupid" (video) Carla Sinclair

politics Anti-fascist Canadian hardcore band kicks Nazi off stage (video) Jennifer Sandlin

Cybertruck deadlier than a Ford Pinto Jason Weisberger

politics Jon Stewart on the madness of Trump's trade war Jason Weisberger