Donald Drumpf Matt Whitaker and Daredevil's Kingpin, separated at birth? Gareth Branwyn

asset forfeiture Oklahoma officials fight for their right to steal money and property for personal use Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids The Man Who Knew Too Much! Why China murdered its own ambassador, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

politics State Department inspector general Steve Linick fired on a Friday night, weird, wonder why? Xeni Jardin

politics U.S. appeals court rejects Trump's attempt to escape 'emoluments' lawsuit over D.C. Trump Hotel Xeni Jardin

nihilism Two great deep-dives mine the endless hole at the bottom of Mitch McConnell's inhumanity Thom Dunn

coronavirus How coronavirus impacts climate change and the US housing market Thom Dunn

crime "A piece of shit": Government report on Wells Fargo corruption shows top executives' direct complicity in millions of acts of fraud Cory Doctorow

corruption Brazil's authoritarians charge Glenn Greenwald with cybercrime for publishing leaks that revealed corruption at the highest levels Cory Doctorow

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

politics New Jersey AG says 5 politicians took thousands in cash bribes via envelopes, paper bags, coffee cups Xeni Jardin

corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

crime The bizarre story of China's most prolific bank-robbers, who stole literal tons of cash and spent it on losing lotto tickets Cory Doctorow

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

politics Peak billionaire: a billionaire tries to purchase a party nomination to outflank anti-billionaires so he can run against another billionaire Cory Doctorow