crime Wells Fargo's ex-CEO will pay $17.5m in fines and never work in banking again (but he is still very, very rich) Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow
crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow
trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
Business Prasad's Law: there's always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it Cory Doctorow
Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow
Old school 1941 film shows striking animators brandishing a working guillotine at the Disney studio gates Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The poorest half of Americans have nothing left, so now the 1%'s growth comes from the upper middle class Cory Doctorow
Business Transcription service rev.com cuts "professional transcriptionists'" effective hourly wage from $6.35 to $4.50 Cory Doctorow
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Copyfight T-Mobile: because we have a (stupid) trademark on one magenta shade, no one can use pink in their logos Cory Doctorow