education Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide Cory Doctorow
politics Billionaire charter-school advocate and political donor calls Betsy DeVos "unprepared and unqualified" Cory Doctorow
florida A Florida school board member demanding special treatment angles to have the principal fired Jason Weisberger
politics Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot out as election goes to runoff between other candidates Rob Beschizza
pride The New York Times called out for editorial bias about transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people by its own writers Jason Weisberger
satan Satanic Temple opens abortion clinic named after anti-choice Supreme Court Justice Alito David Pescovitz
guns Uvalde school police chief told investigators "There's probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don't need any more from out here" Rob Beschizza
intellectual property More shady legal trouble over the rights to American classic To Kill a Mockingbird Thom Dunn
politics Governor-elect Katie Hobbs sues Arizona county that refuses to certify election results Carla Sinclair
politics Continuing the work of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, challenging racism since the 1960s Elías Villoro
books Why is the Christian Right fascinated with children's books from the 19th Century? Elías Villoro
kickstarter Black God's Kiss: tabletop RPG based on the world of pioneering female sword & sorcery author C.L. Moore Gareth Branwyn
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guns Sales of "Bulletproof" Backpacks are on the rise even though they don't protect from AR-15s Thom Dunn