law New media noncompetes are destroying the careers of young journalists Cory Doctorow

Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt’s secret daughter, and George Clooney’s plastic surgery shocker, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business Amazon to be hit with antitrust charges in Europe Xeni Jardin

video games "Tonight We Riot" is a brutal 8-bit side scroller about worker liberation Thom Dunn

workers rights It's International Worker's Day, so here's a look at a day in the life of a labor organizer Thom Dunn

coronavirus Stream this powerful theatre production about class and motherhood right now Thom Dunn

Technology Hungary: Coronavirus law lets PM Viktor Orbán rule by decree, threatens 5 years in prison for 'misinformation' spreaders Xeni Jardin

education Watch this teacher's brutal resignation speech to her school board David Pescovitz

Copyfight Brexit means the UK will shelve the EU Copyright Directive (for now) Cory Doctorow

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

happy mutants EFF announces major new EU focus and two amazing new hires Cory Doctorow

military US Navy building a ship named after Harvey Milk sixty years after he was booted out for being gay David Pescovitz

Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

Business China tech firms shape new facial recognition and surveillance standards at UN: Report Xeni Jardin

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

Old school 1941 film shows striking animators brandishing a working guillotine at the Disney studio gates Cory Doctorow