books Winners Take All: Modern philanthropy means that giving some away is more important than how you got it Cory Doctorow

oligarchy What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn

books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow

computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

health A detailed analysis of American ER bills reveals rampant, impossible-to-avoid price-gouging Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

Business EBGAP: Error Between Google and Privacy Sean O'Brien

microsoft Microsoft CEO: don't worry, we're mostly helping the parts of ICE that don't involve kidnapping children Cory Doctorow

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

happy mutants The GDPR might actually create an "attention economy" Cory Doctorow

Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart

elections No such thing as Bernie Bros: Bernie's approval rates are women 50%, blacks 70%, latinx 55%; men 46%, whites 43% Cory Doctorow

law Although the upcoming Senate Net Neutrality vote is unlikely to work, it is still an activist triumph with real consequences Cory Doctorow

class war Does capitalism breed greed, or elevate the greedy? Cory Doctorow

corruption Even when a Chicago cop is convicted of wrongdoing, a secret appeals court usually overturns it Cory Doctorow

scholarship Either we don't live in a simulation, or computing works differently outside the Matrix Cory Doctorow

class war The juggalos, class struggle, and the left Cory Doctorow

marketing Makeup bloggers turn against consumerism Rob Beschizza

Business United's passenger-beatings are a feature of its business, not a bug Cory Doctorow