scholarship Academic audit of HUD budget finds $351 million in unaccounted-for spending since 1998 Cory Doctorow

gambling The Pentagon has failed eight consecutive audits and has $4.7 trillion in assets. Now it has a gambling machine too. Séamus Bellamy

promises promises Mashable reviews Elon Musk's unfulfilled 2025 promises Jason Weisberger

music Dig this funkified AI/AC/DC version of Back in Black Ruben Bolling

How tax dollars fund the great insect protein swindle Ellsworth Toohey

politics Coincidence? Unusual options activity before Trump's tariff reversal Jason Weisberger

Trump 2.0 Trump crows about champagne tariffs while stocks plunge yet again Carla Sinclair

politics Judge blocks Musk's data grab at the Treasury Jason Weisberger

the Moon Who owns the Moon? The trillion-dollar lunar rush for Helium-3 Mark Frauenfelder

electric vehicles Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg delivers crushing takedown of MAGA cultists' electric vehicle complaints Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump doesn't realize that outside his MAGA cult, no one likes him Jason Weisberger

president Cornel West is running for President Jennifer Sandlin

culture jamming Darth Vader's love letter to Exxon Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Pelosi steps down Rob Beschizza

politics Alex Jones trial moves to the punitive damages phase, with hypothetical (if unlikely) awards in the trillions Rob Beschizza

finance Self-proclaimed "Anti-woke" bank bombs Thom Dunn

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

AI Google engineer suspended after leaking chats with AI bot he claims has become sentient Thom Dunn

Blue Bin Why it is so hard to recycle plastic Jason Weisberger

howto How to make potatoes while dread presses in from every direction Rob Beschizza