trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
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
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
happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow
Business Rockstar Games made £4b between 2013-19, paid no corporate tax in the UK, claimed £42m in tax relief Cory Doctorow
law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow
elections America's super-rich write to Democratic presidential hopefuls, demanding a wealth tax Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Majority of American millionaires support a wealth tax on American millionaires Cory Doctorow
corruption The UK grew rich by looting the world; now it launders billions for other looters Cory Doctorow
scholarship Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them Cory Doctorow
piketty After Notre Dame bailout Yellow Vests urge more Victor Hugo tributes, starting with "Les Miserables" Cory Doctorow
corruption Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists' "model legislation" Cory Doctorow