corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

music Private equity looters startled to be called out by name in Taylor Swift award-acceptance speech Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow

Business The blood of poor Americans is now a leading export, bigger than corn or soy Cory Doctorow

health In any other industry, emergency medical billing would be considered fraudulent Cory Doctorow

Business Prasad's Law: there's always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism McKinsey bills the US government $3m a year for anodyne advice from 23-year-old college grads Cory Doctorow

corruption A former pharma rep explains how the industry pushes doctors to overprescribe Cory Doctorow

Audio Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs's plan to build a surveilling "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Wealthy people are the most likely to give "spiteful gifts" Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Across America, DMVs make millions selling your license data to private eyes — and randos Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism USPTO denies "vegan butcher" trademark to indy food shop, then gives it to Nestlé Mark Frauenfelder

Business A poor, Trump-voting Florida town opened a government grocery store to end its food desert, but it's "not socialism" Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Civil society groups protest the sale of .ORG to a private equity fund and a collection of Republican billionaires Cory Doctorow

privacy Public treated to obfuscation at Waterfront Toronto meeting on negotiations with Google sister company over surveillance district Rosemary Frei

crime Terabytes of data leaked from an oligarch-friendly offshore bank Cory Doctorow

Business Beyond the gig economy: "platform co-ops" that run their own apps Cory Doctorow

corruption Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow

health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies 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