Business Wanna get into Harvard? Just ask your parents to donate a building. Cory Doctorow

Business FTC takes action against stalkerware company Retina-X Gennie Gebhart and Eva Galperin

law Important legal victory in web-scraping case Cory Doctorow

elections Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt Cory Doctorow

class war A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line Cory Doctorow

picks 'Privileged,' Utah Jazz star Kyle Korver's powerful essay on race in the NBA and America Xeni Jardin

dunning-kruger incarnate Mike Huckabee repeats joke twice to elicit laughs from elderly all-white audience Mark Frauenfelder

guillotine watch Thousands of Wisconsinites turn out to protest outgoing Republicans' plan to seize power after electoral defeat Cory Doctorow

elections The GOP stole Wisconsin; now they're trying to steal it again on the way out — PROTEST TODAY! Cory Doctorow

surveillance Sky blue, water wet, porn filters don't work Cory Doctorow

privacy GDPR: Don't forget to bring a towel! Sean O'Brien

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

happy mutants Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Now with Extra Monsters): At Least One Monster Per Paragraph! This Is Our Guarantee! Marc Laidlaw

devos DeVos' Civil Rights Office appointee opposes civil rights Jason Weisberger

science fiction Fiction: The Boy Who Made Flowers S.B. Divya

politics How Houston's rich kids game the system (Spoiler: with their parents' money) Rob Beschizza

books Reminder: Neal Stephenson predicted Donald Trump in 1994 Cory Doctorow

Science Study: people who believe in innate intelligence overestimate their own Cory Doctorow

politics Understanding American authoritarianism Cory Doctorow

Business Trump Casinos lost millions every single year that Donald Trump ran it (but he's still rich) Cory Doctorow