In 1926, eccentric lawyer Charles Vance Millar left behind a legal trap: a massive estate awarded to the Toronto mother who birthed the most children in ten years. Unpack the wild, dark history of the Great Stork Derby—a Depression-era contest that exposed the thin line between survival and spectacle.

Discover how manufactured ignorance, engineered fear, and strategic stupidity have been weaponized to create a self-sustaining political ecosystem. An in-depth analysis of how the modern Right-wing information machine operates to erode democratic literacy

Think grocery store barcodes reveal hidden pricing codes or country of origin? Discover what those 12 digits really mean, why PLU sticker myths persist, and how retail barcodes actually work.

Capitalism isn’t what happens when government steps back—it’s what happens when government writes the rules. Explore how legal “coding,” property rights, and corporate structures manufacture wealth and hide the true mechanisms of redistribution.

In 1919, a 50-foot tank ruptured in Boston, releasing a 35 mph wave of molasses that killed 21 people. Discover the chilling combination of non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, winter weather, and corporate negligence that made the Great Molasses Flood so deadly.

Discover how “ruling class nihilism” has become the operating system of the modern economy. By analyzing the gap between rhetoric and reality, we expose why institutions are being hollowed out for short-term extraction.

After the Royal Canadian Air Force rescued stranded American teens from a wilderness wildfire, US politicians responded with tariff threats and sanctions bills. Here is an in-depth analysis of the growing cross-border rift and the moral failure of Washington’s response to Canadian wildfire smoke.

Are micronations just a joke, or do they expose the fragile, artificial nature of global currency? Explore the failed promise of monetary sovereignty in micronations and why fiat money is the world’s most successful, and most terrifying, piece of performance art.

Civil-libertarian Douglas Ashcroft sits down with socialist writer Declan Murray for a fierce, unsparing discussion on the demise of Canadian media, institutional “smart-idiot” expertise, corporate vs. state power, and why “the free market” is often a political illusion.

In 2006, I posted John Giorno’s poem Just Say No to Family Values on this site with a one-line introduction and stepped aside. Twenty years later, Giorno is gone — he died in 2019 at eighty-two, in the Bowery apartment where he’d lived for decades — and the political conditions the poem was written to confront have not gone anywhere at all. Giorno was a titan of the American avant-garde: Beat Generation confidant, Andy Warhol film star, inventor of Dial-A-Poem, and author of one of the most subversive and necessary poems in the canon. Antonello Faretta’s award-winning poetry film of the same name brings it to devastating life. This is the full story — and the argument for why it still needs to be heard.