death Start-up turns cremains into stones to help people connect with their departed loved ones Rusty Blazenhoff
immigration The wild story of the first known Chinese person to live in Boston in the 1790s Thom Dunn
corruption These four oil-fattened Democratic Senators helped the GOP confirm Exxon's Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's NSA will be able to share its firehose of surveillance data with 16 government agencies (Thanks, Obama) Cory Doctorow
Art and Design German cemetery nixes sexualized tombstone for sex-worker/advocate's grave Cory Doctorow