trumpism Molly Crabapple's illustrated report from the immigration detention Gulags of Texas Cory Doctorow

electricity UK ends coal power generation today after 142 years Rob Beschizza

covid Just a few weeks in, passengers on this nine-month cruise have already endured a COVID outbreak, racial microaggressions, and an emergent class system Jennifer Sandlin

animals Republicans decide to blame whale strandings on wind farms Ruben Bolling

cephalopods Giant squid rescued from Obama in Japan Thom Dunn

aquarium Building an eight-story vertical fish farm David Pescovitz

picks Coronavirus money shot: China to inject $174 Billion of liquidity Monday Feb. 3 Xeni Jardin

scams Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America Cory Doctorow

security Your kid's "smart watch" lets anyone in the world trace their location. Again. Cory Doctorow

corruption Addressing inequality is foreign policy, not domestic Cory Doctorow

trumpism Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow

CIA RIP, George HW Bush: a mass-murderer and war-criminal Cory Doctorow

coal America could save $78 billion by shutting down coal power plants Séamus Bellamy

Business Apple's world-beating financial engineering is teaching the corporate world how to exploit Trump's tax cuts Cory Doctorow

corruption The growth of Jamaican phone-scamming caused a crime-wave and martial law in Montego Bay Cory Doctorow

uk Zuck to Parliament: Drop dead Cory Doctorow

canada Toronto's real estate market is imploding Cory Doctorow

happy mutants This French baker cruises around delivering fresh-baked goods to boaters Rusty Blazenhoff

picks Hurricane Hermine Strikes Florida's West Coast Xeni Jardin

nuclear power New UK power station to be "most expensive object on earth" Rob Beschizza