crime "A piece of shit": Government report on Wells Fargo corruption shows top executives' direct complicity in millions of acts of fraud Cory Doctorow
graeber Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people Cory Doctorow
police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow
education Kentucky's Whitefield Academy expels student for wearing a rainbow shirt in a Facebook photo Cory Doctorow
health Med-tech company repossess veteran's artificial legs because the VA won't cover them Cory Doctorow
corruption Olympics warns athletes that kneeling, fist-raising and other political actions will be banned at the Tokyo 2020 games Cory Doctorow
Business Despite 50 state AGs' antitrust investigations, Google stocks hit an all time high Cory Doctorow
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
b-side Kentucky's former GOP governor pardoned a bunch of rapists and murderers on his way out of office, including a child rapist Cory Doctorow
education Students at elite Shanghai university protest the removal of "freedom of thought" from the school charter Cory Doctorow
scholarship Bernie Sanders got the GAO to study the life chances of millennials, and the report concludes that debt is "crushing their dreams" Cory Doctorow
books The New Yorker's profile of William Gibson: "Droll, chilled out, and scarily articulate" Cory Doctorow
