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free speech Koch-funded "academic freedom" grifters run into trouble at Wellesley Andrea James

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Business As New York State's shareholder suit against Big Oil for climate denial proceeds, Exxonmobil caught intimidating witnesses Cory Doctorow

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finance Here's how the Pentagon swindled Congress with $21 trillion worth of undocumented, untraceable, unaccounted for expenditures Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Electrification 2.0: Rural broadband co-ops are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists Cory Doctorow

Science Academic publishing is a mess and it makes culture wars dumber Rob Beschizza

trolls Top White House troll Betsy DeVos is considering using federal funds to buy guns for teachers Mark Frauenfelder

politics A Fresh Voice for San Francisco Shahid Buttar

Science Scientist puts his dog on the editorial boards of seven predatory journals as proof of their negligence Cory Doctorow

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law ACLU files a lawsuit to repeal the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, used to prosecute Aaron Swartz Cory Doctorow

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Copyfight Anne Frank's diary is in the public domain; editors aren't co-authors Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Copyfraud: Disney's bogus complaint over toy photo gets a fan kicked off Facebook Cory Doctorow

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