cars New bulletproof SUV for suburban moms comes with pepper spray cannons and more Thom Dunn

economics Tracking the Rise and Fall of the American middle class with shopping malls Thom Dunn

thanksgiving A Thanksgiving prayer from William S. Burroughs David Pescovitz

America How the United States re-branded as "America" Thom Dunn

art A janitor at a detention center saved immigrants' belongings and turned them into art Thom Dunn

thanksgiving A Thanksgiving prayer from William S. Burroughs David Pescovitz

poetry A Thanksgiving prayer from William S. Burroughs David Pescovitz

books On the road with America's post-homed nomads Cory Doctorow

usausausa Behavioral economist on why Americans freak out when you attribute their success to luck Cory Doctorow

plagiarism Phony Vivek Ramaswamy steals line after line from Barack Obama (video) Carla Sinclair

Weird Aerial photo of John Travolta's house looks like if you asked an AI for a picture of a mansion that was also an airport terminal Rob Beschizza

racism Watch Sacha Baron Cohen at the 60th anniversary of MLK Jr.'s March on Washington Ruben Bolling

oligarchy Joe the Plumber dead at 49 Mark Frauenfelder

compounds Shampoo king wants to become a war lord with a "quite sizable compound" Rob Beschizza

werner herzog The curious history of the dancing chicken in Werner Herzog's 1977 film Stroszek Jennifer Sandlin

Comic Books Collector seeks legendary comic-book ad robot plans Mark Frauenfelder

Ask a Mexican Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin

maga This 1998 Octavia Butler novel predicted a Christofacist United States with the slogan "Make America Great Again" Mark Frauenfelder

Entertainment From "Song of the South" to positive representation: Disney's Splash Mountain gets rethemed Ruben Bolling

movies Margot Robbie gives a tour of Barbie's Dreamhouse Devin Nealy