politics Sinema drops out of Senate race, admitting she is "not what America wants right now" Jennifer Sandlin
politics Texas Republicans move to oust Ken Paxton, their own long-indicted, scandal-plagued state Attorney General Rob Beschizza
politics Biden mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene, to raucous laughter: "Isn't she amazing? Oof!" Rob Beschizza
politics New York passed the nation's first right-to-repair law. Pleasing tech lobbyists, Governor Kathy Hochul hasn't signed it Rob Beschizza
sycophants Pence feels sorry for the man who wanted to see him hanged to death on the Capitol grounds Mark Frauenfelder
rants A-ha rant compares sports to GOP politics: When players "are shivved in the gut, the game shouldn't continue" Carla Sinclair
PSAs Watch: Every living president and first lady join in new vaccine PSA – except Donald and Melania Carla Sinclair
politics Mitch McConnell promises to vote for Trump in 2024, after saying Trump was responsible for the Capitol Hill riot Rob Beschizza
media "Zombie" magazines: prestigious publications raised from the dead by hucksters, extremists and morons Rob Beschizza
elections Pete Buttigieg's prizewinning high-school essay praising Bernie Sanders: "the power to win back the faith of a voting public weary and wary of political opportunism" Cory Doctorow
Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow
scholarship An academic pollster explains why she thinks any Democratic nominee will win the presidency in 2020 Cory Doctorow
scholarship White Americans abandoned democracy and embraced authoritarianism when they realized brown people would soon outvote them Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Analysis of all the elections since Trump produces no clear answers on the class and suburban/urban correlates of flippability Cory Doctorow