steve bannon Steve Bannon turns Vox's MAGA warning on its head: "We ARE a threat to the American state" Carla Sinclair

sociopathic cults One-fifth of Americans believe every school shooting is a fake event filled with "crisis actors" Jennifer Sandlin

anime This iconic Akira animation cel will be in Heritage Auctions' International Original Art and Anime Signature Auction March 11-13 Popkin

jimmy carter Jimmy Carter warns that Americans are close to "losing our precious democracy" Carla Sinclair

apple Apple fires misogynistic employee just hours after he was hired Mark Frauenfelder

police brutality British Lord praises police brutality at protests: "I hope they didn't damage their shields or batons" Rob Beschizza

mitch mcconnell Two great deep-dives mine the endless hole at the bottom of Mitch McConnell's inhumanity Thom Dunn

trumpism The longest-serving Congressman in US history proposes a four fixes for American democracy Cory Doctorow

tea Barry's Gold Blend is my favorite tea, PG Tips leaves me mildly depressed Jason Weisberger

rip The time I interviewed Harlan Ellison about his lawsuit against a fan who posted his stories to Usenet Mark Frauenfelder

Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart

happy mutants Anthony Burgess's lost, incomplete slang dictionary re-discovered Cory Doctorow

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

News Halt and Catch Fire: The Most Relevant Show on Television is Set in the 80s Maureen Herman

Dungeons and Dragons Out of the Abyss, the new D&D adventure, is Alice in Wonderland meets Diablo Jason Louv

offworld Edutainment failed me Aroon Karuna

Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self Mark Dery

Entertainment RoboCop in review Ethan Gilsdorf

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