picks Mississippi state rep tells distraught mom to buy kid's lifesaving meds 'with money she earns' Cory Doctorow

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

tabloids Absence of evidence is evidence of a cover-up, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Biden's Vietnam and his blackmail nightmare in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

fake news Inside Kim Jong-Un's bunker, the plot to kidnap Prince George, and other fabrications in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

True Crime The 10 most unsolvable unsolved disappearances James Renner

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Caffeine can really mess with your head Murray Carpenter

drug policy Why animals eat psychoactive plants Johann Hari

Disney Princesses Are My (Imperfect) Feminist Role Models Caroline Siede

The charley horse from Hell — why you should work at a standing desk Gammy Hamhock

Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life Mark Dery

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

surrealism Nerval's Lobster: Is walking a crustacean any more ridiculous than a dog? Mark Dery