The racial wealth gap between blacks and whites creates a terrible cycle of debt, even for small debts. Paul Kiel illustrates.

Chelsea Manning brings you a book review of Aaron Swartz’ The Boy Who Could Change The World.

Poetry by Max Reif.

After living in the same town for 14 years, I decided it was finally time to meet my neighbors. My secret? Soup night.

How Amanda Palmer does it may provide many others with an alternative to their own ideas of success. Sarah Hinchliff Pearson writes.

Filipina trafficking survivors endure and start their own workers’ co-op. Abigail Savitch-Lew reports.

Preventing analog recordings, books and other records from destruction is one of the great duties of digital technology. This week we give you a glimpse of the things that can be done with a little open access and a lot of will.

Kelly J. Baker considers the presence of emotion is children’s movies and in the experiences of childhood itself.

The Star turns four, giving our publisher a reason to get all reflective and stuff.

2015 was an interesting year for copyright reform. Jeremy Malcolm explains just how interesting.