Games What if "Papers, Please" was a Game & Watch-style handheld liquid crystal game? Rob Beschizza

MAGA cultists MAGA goons with guns and phony badges knock on doors to interrogate residents in California Mark Frauenfelder

canada Sidewalk Labs' quiet plan for Canada's banks to manage a national digital ID for health care and housing Lilian Radovac

kansas Birtherism for everyone: Kansas woman told birth certificate can't be used for passport renewal Cory Doctorow

papers please Two US citizens detained by a Border Patrol agent for speaking Spanish Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance Trump administration will require every visitor to the USA to divulge all social media identities Cory Doctorow

law Ticket checker on the Minneapolis metro thinks he's an immigration cop Rob Beschizza

Science Do Your Part! Illegally Download Scientific Papers Rob Beschizza

privacy TSA threatens to stop accepting driver's licenses from nine states as of Jan 10 Cory Doctorow

offworld You are the Animal Inspector, and some pets just aren't any good Leigh Alexander

offworld Sign, seal, and deliver mind-numbing form letters in this fun game Leigh Alexander

halloween Flula Borg hilarious deconstructs that weird "trick or treat, smell my feet" poem Jennifer Sandlin

gun violence in america UNC's student paper publishes stunning front page showing texts during shooting Carla Sinclair

comedy Watch "Turn-On" a 1969 comedy TV show that got canceled in the middle of the first episode Mark Frauenfelder

Ask a Mexican Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin

passengers Lost sub's company OceanGate was warned about safety and possible "catastrophic"outcomes back in 2018 Carla Sinclair

guns Ronald Reagan on Gun Control circa 1989 Elías Villoro

politics Idaho restricts leaving state to get abortions Rob Beschizza