social media "Who has seen a heavily pregnant woman since 2021?" — Naomi Wolf suggests that no one is giving birth Mark Frauenfelder

deaths Famed actress Brigitte Bardot dead at 91 Rob Beschizza

politics Expert warns of a Weather Underground 2.0 in Trump's America Ellsworth Toohey

Science French scientist denied entry to US after a search of his phone revealed messages critical of Trump Ruben Bolling

World War II How Polish professors let infected lice feed on them to avoid concentration camps in WWII Ellsworth Toohey

anti-vaxxers Defying all logic, anti-vaxxers hold a convention Jason Weisberger

books Checking out the Black Speculative Arts Movement Elías Villoro

books Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve" Elías Villoro

Games How "Monopoly" took a monopoly on Lizzie Magie's Landlord Game Elías Villoro

censorship Glenn Greenwald was cancelled from the Harper's Letter warning about "cancel culture" Thom Dunn

free speech Why Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" is dumb Mark Frauenfelder

mistakes What should become of the MIT Media Lab? Rob Beschizza

politics Why don't more Chinese people oppose the Chinese government? Cory Doctorow

china Chinese spies attempted to compromise 4,000 French citizens on LinkedIn Séamus Bellamy

trumpism Why "leftism" is parting ways with "liberalism" and what it means for the future of American politics Cory Doctorow

linguistics The war over apostrophes in Kazakhstan's new alphabet Clive Thompson

politics Traditional capitalism needs "extra" people, but managerial capitalism has no use for them Cory Doctorow

neoliberalism In the US and UK, retirement is only for the super-rich Cory Doctorow

happy mutants How to: Criticize technology Cory Doctorow

The secret life of a public library security guard Dana Bialek