corruption Illinois's "anti-corruption" Republican governor handed out $300,000 in cash at a campaign rally Cory Doctorow
publishing In-depth look at the Financial Times' weekly guide to ostentatious status goods for tasteless one-percenters Cory Doctorow
Business Shkrelifreude: while Martin Shkreli rots in prison, his price-gouging pharma company is hemorrhaging money Cory Doctorow
uk London luxury housing market bubble bursts: 39% of sales last quarter were to deep discount wholesalers making bulk buys Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Burberry torches £28.6m worth of unsold inventory to keep prices high Cory Doctorow
class war McMansion meanings: why do America's jumbo-sized status homes have useless "formal spaces?" Cory Doctorow
class war America's largest fast-food chains forced to end conspiracy not to hire people looking for better-paid McJobs Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism AT&T stands to make $800,000,000 more by sneakily tripling a bullshit "administrative fee" Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch The Rent's Too Damned High: 15,000 words on the ways real-estate speculation and inequality have killed NYC Cory Doctorow
class war Across America, the Poor Peoples' Campaign is building steam and refusing to be intimidated by crackdowns Cory Doctorow
class war GDP vs human thriving: a "healthy" economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing Cory Doctorow
class war Full time minimum wage workers can't afford the rent on a 2-bedroom apartment anywhere in the USA Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Mass protests against IMF austerity force Jordan's Prime Minister to resign Cory Doctorow
Business Private equity bosses took $200m out of Toys R Us and crashed the company, lifetime employees got $0 in severance Cory Doctorow
law Supreme Court rules that employers can make signing away your right to sue them in a class a condition of employment Cory Doctorow
