First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email
A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag. Julia Angwin reports.
Fast, Faster, Fastest: Why the Rush?
Much is lost in our obsession with speed. Ralph Nader considers.
Small Wonder: La Mélancolie des dragons
Philippe Quesne’s piece at On the Boards proposes naïveté as the basis of theatrical magic. Omar Willey considers.
We Meet for the First Time in Two Years
Poetry by Pam Carter.
Tim Burgess: Ultimate Limousine Liberal
Apparently, Seattle City Council incumbent Tim Burgess is once again cynically posing as a liberal, mere weeks before facing Seattle’s famously liberal electorate. Jeff Stevens historically and/or skeptically reports.
The Rise of the Consumer Citizen
From Arista Burwell-Chen, a short meditation on the pitfalls of belonging to a world of stuff.
Sunday Comics
Sunday Comics welcomes our robot overlords.
Breaking Up with White Jesus
Kaya Oakes tries to reconcile spirituality with suffering, and finds race in the way.
Can America Cope with a Resurgence of Tropical Disease?
Having stamped out a number of tropical diseases – including malaria – decades ago, is America today complacent about a rising wave of infectious disease? Carrie Arnold ponders.
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