kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
corruption South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow
trumpism Wisconsin commissioned an independent report on how to fix the Foxconn deal. Result: it can't be done. Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Texas Instrument's post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering Cory Doctorow
elections Europe's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow
politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin
class war Kenyans from "the toughest neighborhood on earth" trace pixels all day to train autonomous vehicles Cory Doctorow
urban theory Study blames Uber/Lyft for San Francisco traffic, Uber/Lyft blames Amazon, propose surge pricing Cory Doctorow