History For sale: one 19th century Quebec village, slightly fake, $2.8M Cory Doctorow

corruption Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won't disclose what kind of factory it will build Cory Doctorow

trumpism Wisconsin commissioned an independent report on how to fix the Foxconn deal. Result: it can't be done. Cory Doctorow

Business Foxconn promised it would do something with the empty buildings it bought in Wisconsin, but they're still empty (still no factory, either) Cory Doctorow

trumpism Foxconn's inconsistent, chaotic behavior in Wisconsin looks awfully grifty Cory Doctorow

trumpism Delayed, not saved: Foxconn's Wisconsin "factory" announcement is a bid to help Trump save face Cory Doctorow

gop After $4.1 billion subsidy, Foxconn cancels plan to build Wisconsin "factory," now proposing a small R&D facility Cory Doctorow

picks U.S. Strategic Command tweets nuclear war joke on New Year's Eve Xeni Jardin

gop As Wisconsin's corporate welfare to Foxconn keeps rising, the number of jobs to be created keeps falling Cory Doctorow

photography Buildings photographically stripped of everything but their facades Andrea James

canada Trumpian Ontario premier Doug Ford will gut Toronto's city council to punish his Tory rivals Cory Doctorow

elections Bumblefuck Watch: Rob Ford's brother hired his own "reporter" to ask him scripted softball questions for literal fake news spots Cory Doctorow

Business T-Mobile fined $40m for scamming rural users with Potemkin ring-tones Cory Doctorow

Business Wisconsin clears the way for Foxconn by bulldozing working peoples' homes and paying them pennies on the dollar Cory Doctorow

North Korea's creepy fake civilian village fools no one Alastair Bonnett