late stage capitalism Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow
science fiction Welcome to 2020 and your annual State of the World discussion with Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and The WELL 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
politics The Oligarch Game: use coin-tosses to demonstrate "winner take all" and its power to warp perceptions 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
corruption Trump pledged that Amazon would be forced to pay its taxes; thanks to his #taxscam, their profits went up and their taxes stayed $0.00 Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow
corruption The corrupt Brazilian prosecutors who locked up Lula now want to release him, to make him less sympathetic Cory Doctorow
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politics Billionaire newspaper monopolist family cancels editorial cartoonist after anti-Trump drawing Cory Doctorow
corruption The UK grew rich by looting the world; now it launders billions for other looters Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Big Tech lobbyists and "open for business" Tories killed Ontario's Right-to-Repair legislation Cory Doctorow
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