Erasing Black AIDS History
A recent protest makes visible the ways that the white gay art establishment maintains the same erasure, censorship and exclusion that fueled the initial AIDS crisis.
Why Small Debts Matter So Much To Black Lives
The racial wealth gap between blacks and whites creates a terrible cycle of debt, even for small debts. Paul Kiel illustrates.
Remembering Aaron Swartz
Chelsea Manning brings you a book review of Aaron Swartz’ The Boy Who Could Change The World.
Psychedelic therapy
Notoriously illegal and synonymous with hedonism, LSD and ecstasy started life as aids to psychotherapy. Sam Wong meets the band of psychiatrists who are looking to reclaim them for medicine again.
Sunday Comics
You’re face to face with the man who sold the Sunday Comics.
Saturday Night Rituals
Poetry by Max Reif.
Reflections on events in Cologne: “What we need now is a kind of internal mast”
Johanna Heuveling reflects on the appropriate stance to take in the moment when we are pulled by a strong current of opinion.
A Neighborhood Revolution in a Pot of Soup
After living in the same town for 14 years, I decided it was finally time to meet my neighbors. My secret? Soup night.
You Can’t Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs. DRM, Round Two
Cory Doctorow mindfully considers the bad juju of DRM on the Web.
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