happy mutants Molly Ringwald's brilliant essay about John Hughes is a superb exploration of what it means to love "problematic" art Cory Doctorow
donald trump Trump is lying to avoid paying $464 million judgment, says NY Attorney General Letitia James Mark Frauenfelder
politics SNL's State of the Union cold open perfectly captures what's wrong with Katie Britt Jason Weisberger
books American Eagle: A 1950s comic book series about Native Americans in the old west that is collected for the first time Ruben Bolling
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