national crime wave Georgia police taser an 87-year-old woman who was cutting dandelions with a knife Mark Frauenfelder
books Two perspectives on Asian-American life that riff on fantasy and stereotype: "Interior Chinatown" & "Tiger Style!" Thom Dunn
china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow
class war Terror as disappearances follow Chinese student communists' solidarity with striking workers Cory Doctorow
picks What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country Inside Moldova Katherine Leipper
corruption The growth of Jamaican phone-scamming caused a crime-wave and martial law in Montego Bay Cory Doctorow
fake news Burt Reynolds' skid marks, Prince Charles' long-lost brother, and another Obama cover-up in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan