class war The copay assumes the 99% treat healthcare like spiteful buffet gorgers Cory Doctorow

economics Unemployment passes 30m with last week's 3.8m new filers Rob Beschizza

Science Coronavirus 'acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen,' say doctors Xeni Jardin

Economy Another 4.4m filed for unemployment last week Rob Beschizza

Business U.S. weekly jobless claims 5,245,000 last week Xeni Jardin

Economy 6.6m joined unemployed line last week, more than expected Rob Beschizza

coronavirus U.S. unemployment soars to 3.28m, four times the highest on record Rob Beschizza

trump Trump: 'I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter' Xeni Jardin

finance The Financial Times' 404 page Rob Beschizza

Business Fatal car wrecks are correlated with stock-market fluctuations Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules Cory Doctorow

health Medicare for All would cut most Americans' taxes, creating the biggest American take-home pay raise in a generation Cory Doctorow

finance The retreat of "scientific selfishness," a literature review Cory Doctorow

Business "Harbinger households": neighborhoods that consistently buy products that get discontinued, buy real-estate that underperforms, and donate to losing political candidates Cory Doctorow

economics Profile of Mariana Mazzucato, the economist who's swaying both left and right politicians with talk of "the entrepreneurial state" Cory Doctorow

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

corruption Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing Cory Doctorow

economics Washington establishment freaks out as Modern Monetary Theory gains currency Cory Doctorow

climate Whales worth about $1 trillion in carbon sequestration, analysis finds Clive Thompson

happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow