Business US DOD inspector general finds Pentagon decision to award $10B JEDI contract to Microsoft 'consistent' with acquisition standards Xeni Jardin
tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan’s final insult, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei
china Hong Kong elections: overconfident Beijing loyalist parties suffer a near-total rout Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies Cory Doctorow
security Why haven't cyberinsurers exerted more pressure on companies to be better at security? Cory Doctorow
politics In Ireland, Mike Pence stays at Trump’s Doonbeg resort 150 miles away from VP's meetings in Dublin Xeni Jardin
Business Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow
uk "PM for a day": dissident Tories plan to bring down the government the day after Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister Cory Doctorow
finance The rent is too damned high because money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money Cory Doctorow
books Schneier's "Click Here To Kill Everybody pervasive connected devices mean we REALLY can't afford shitty internet policy Cory Doctorow
hope you vaccinated your kid Cheerleading competition may have been ground zero for mumps outbreak Jason Weisberger
trump Amnesty International warns that Trump's hatemongering sets "a dangerous precedent for other governments to follow." Seamus Bellamy
