corruption Silvio Berlusconi prostitution-ring wiretaps: sex with eight women in one night, "I'm only prime minister in my spare time" Cory Doctorow
goldman sachs Man who helped cause 2008 financial crash suddenly very concerned about the economy Thom Dunn
Ukraine Internal memo proves Fox News knew they were spreading disinformation about Ukraine — especially Hannity Thom Dunn
late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow
impeachment inquiry House Dems release Lev Parnas's handwritten notes about the Ukraine scandal ahead of impeachment trial Thom Dunn
Business The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble Cory Doctorow
fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow
Business Despite 50 state AGs' antitrust investigations, Google stocks hit an all time high Cory Doctorow
corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow
politics The Oligarch Game: use coin-tosses to demonstrate "winner take all" and its power to warp perceptions Cory Doctorow
elections Bloomberg's $34m presidential campaign ad-buy is 1.1% of the taxes Bernie, Warren and Steyer want him to pay 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
