Copyfight "Sixteen Tons": the student debt edition Cory Doctorow

prison Watch a video of my prison and opioids play "Streets Like This," performed by actors who have all dealt with incarceration Thom Dunn

philosophy How America's hatred of poor people ties back to Puritan work ethic Thom Dunn

happy mutants The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s Cory Doctorow

happy mutants J Michael Straczynski's "Becoming Superman": a memoir of horrific abuse, war crimes, perseverance, trauma, triumph and doing what's right Cory Doctorow

politics Only jerks are invited to Trump social media summit Xeni Jardin

medicine Médecins Sans Frontières is on the front lines of the Mexican drug war Seamus Bellamy

trump As with Nicaragua, so too America Seamus Bellamy

uk If this goes on… The 1% will own two thirds of the world by 2030 Cory Doctorow

health Becoming a mother in a Rohingya refugee camp Firen Jones

class war Making sense of Basic Income proposals Cory Doctorow

class war 40% of households in Philadelphia can't pay their water bill Cory Doctorow

Kids America: where hundreds of thousand of underage girls are married off by their parents Cory Doctorow

Business Silicon Valley banks offer tech giants' new hires 100% mortgages on 24 hours' notice Cory Doctorow

obama President Obama's final State of the Union address Xeni Jardin

No, poor kids don't struggle in school because their parents have small vocabularies Cory Doctorow

offworld Piracy gave me a future Daniel Starkey

Teacher wants to give desk cycles to her inner city high school students Mark Frauenfelder

Business Matt Taibbi's The Divide: incandescent indictment of the American justice-gap Cory Doctorow