late stage capitalism The weird grift of "sovereign citizens": where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding Cory Doctorow
Business The Boston Globe on breaking up Big Tech falls into the trap of tech exceptionalism Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism War criminal and snowflake Erik Prince cancels Beloit College talk after student protests, threatens lawsuit Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism UPDATE: New York State goes after the Sackler family's opioid fortune, claims they funneled their Oxy millions through offshore laundries Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Study finds 95% of all Bitcoin trading volume is fake, designed to lure in ICOs Cory Doctorow
elections Elizabeth Warren's latest campaign plank is a national Right-to-Repair law for farm equipment Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism McDonald's will drop opposition to increases in the federal minimum wage Cory Doctorow
corruption An end-run around Citizens United: passing state laws that ban rewarding campaign donors with political favors Cory Doctorow
Business Self-insurer Walmart flies its sick employees to out-of-state specialists to avoid local price-gougers Cory Doctorow
health A detailed analysis of American ER bills reveals rampant, impossible-to-avoid price-gouging Cory Doctorow
education McMansion Hell tours the homes of the "meritocratic" one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids' way into top universities in the college admissions scandal Cory Doctorow
Business Schadenflying: the super-rich are getting ripped off like crazy on their private jet billings Cory Doctorow
class war From prisons to factories to offices: the spread of workplace surveillance and monitoring tech Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The promise and peril of "sonification": giving feedback through sound Cory Doctorow
transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism France fines UBS €3.7b for helping rich French residents launder more than €10b Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Small business in Wisconsin cancels its unusably bad internet service from Frontier; Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee Cory Doctorow
