Brian Doherty: From MAD Magazine to Maus
A new history, Dirty Pictures, explores how underground comix revolutionized art and exploded censorship once and for all.
Burning Man
Burning Man Without the Man
No official organization, no tickets, and a different relationship with federal authorities created a near-anarchistic civic experience for Americans battered by COVID-19 anxieties.
Burning Man Sues the Federal Government Over Permitting Fees and a Sketchy Appeals Process
A federal lawsuit demands that the government honor its appeals process regarding the costs it imposes on the annual event.
Burning Man vs. the Bureaucracy
The Bureau of Land Management threatens to impose new restrictions on the famous desert festival.
The Feds Want To Subject Every Burning Man Attendee to a Warrantless Drug Search
The Bureau of Land Management sees no Fourth Amendment concerns with searching American citizens for reasons to arrest them without probable cause when it comes to their event permits.
Going to Burning Man? The Feds Want You Searched for Drugs
Can the government demand a warrantless search with no probable cause of ticket holders as a condition of issuing an event permit?
Wave of Burning Man-Related Drug Arrests Won't Go to Trial
District Attorney finds too many questionable stop and search practices in campaign of harassment aimed at Burners.
Burning Man Attorney Threatens Bureau of Indian Affairs Over Traffic Stops
The feds insist it's just a coincidence that an opioid task force targeted the one road to Burning Man as the event ramped up.
How a San Francisco Beach Burn Set the World Aflame
Larry Harvey, the founder of Burning Man, gifted to American culture a fresh and much-needed ritual.
When Medicine Serves the Police: A Cautionary Tale from Burning Man
Last year a woman went into respiratory failure when a medic shot her with ketamine to help cops subdue her.
Drug Dogs Sniffing the U.S. Mail at Burning Man, and Armed BLM Agents Becoming Impromptu Mailmen
Disturbing privacy-violating practice at Burning Man finds drug dogs once again striking out.
Yes, Burning Man Is Pretty Libertarian in Many Respects
Which is a shame for those who can't tolerate any space not managed by compulsion
Federal Bureau of Land Management to Burning Man: Give Us Real Toilets, and Clean Them! Safety is All!
The federal agents who hold the festival's life in their hands demand to be gifted better accommodations.
Homesteading on the High Seas
Floating Burning Man, "jurisdictional arbitrage," and other adventures in anarchism