Business Transcription service rev.com cuts "professional transcriptionists'" effective hourly wage from $6.35 to $4.50 Cory Doctorow
racism Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst Catherynne Valente
Business For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
Business Now that Uber and Lyft are public, their inevitable financial collapse is much clearer Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon will raise its minimum wage for employees to $15 (what about contractors?) Cory Doctorow
gop Good riddance: Justice Kennedy; Democrats, it's time for hardcore, relentless Gorsuch payback 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
elections In Chicago primaries, a string of defeats for the Democratic establishment at the hands of progressive Democrats Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Steven Brust's "Good Guys," a hardboiled noir urban fantasy, with everything great about Brust on proud display Cory Doctorow
Business Nudging doesn't give poor people retirement savings, it just makes them poorer Cory Doctorow
class war The GOP tax plan was supposed to gouge high tax blue states with massive hikes, but it'll probably end up making them richer Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Americans have no savings, with good reason: housing, education and health care costs are out of control, wages are stagnant, and the Fed has suppressed interest rates Cory Doctorow
class war Paul Ryan imagines "Cindy," a hypothetical beneficiary of his tax plan, doesn't realize she and her child are starving to death Cory Doctorow
