education What's wrong with blaming "information" for political chaos Cory Doctorow

maga Watch: CNN's 10-minute explainer of the Proud Boys Mark Frauenfelder

tucker carlson Knight Foundation invites white nationalist Tucker Carlson to speak on the future of news  Mark Frauenfelder

democracy Nobody's off the hook Marina Gorbis

music Dark Side of Light's "bummer summer" breeze Daniel Siwek

sensemaking WTF is going on? Sensemaking in hyper weird times Ferdinando Buscema

politics Facebook studied how it polarizes users, then ignored the research Xeni Jardin

COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow

guillotine watch With "OK boomer," millennials are killing intergenerational resentment Cory Doctorow

disease Cows painted like zebras keep flies from biting them Mark Frauenfelder

climate change Errol Morris and Bob Odenkirk team up to "capture the absurdity and the desperation" of climate change Mark Frauenfelder

late stage capitalism Ex-Fox & Friends host, accused of a Ponzi scheme that turned Indianapolis real-estate investors into slumlords, moves to Portugal Cory Doctorow

scholarship An academic pollster explains why she thinks any Democratic nominee will win the presidency in 2020 Cory Doctorow

health Why is the American Medical Association finally weighing to oppose anti-abortion bills Cory Doctorow

elections All weekend, California Democrats booed neoliberal would-be presidents who talked down the Green New Deal and Medicare for All Cory Doctorow

Democrats A Sanders candidacy would make 2020 a referendum on the future, not a referendum on Trump Cory Doctorow

net neutrality America is not "polarized": it's a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority Cory Doctorow

fox Fox News was always partisan, but now it is rudderless and "anti-democratic" Cory Doctorow

picks Robert Mueller was target of Russian infowar, Senate report reveals Xeni Jardin