late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
health Serpent profiteers: how a summer camp snakebite turned into a $142,938 medical bill Cory Doctorow
Business Canada Pension Plan is long on US private prisons and immigrant detention centers Cory Doctorow
Business "Spread Pricing" transparency reveals the millions CVS rakes in by gouging Medicare and prisons on prescription markups Cory Doctorow
Business America's prisons are replacing vital in-person visits with expensive, nonfunctional video calling Cory Doctorow
Business Shortly after her death, Harper Lee's heirs kill cheap paperback edition of To Kill a Mockingbird Cory Doctorow
glam Triple Chaser: a short documentary that uses machine learning to document tear gas use against civilians, calling out "philanthropist" Warren Kanders for his company's war-crimes Cory Doctorow
media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow
health Dentistry's evidentiary vacuum allows profiteering butchers to raid our mouths for millions Cory Doctorow
uk London's awful estate agents are cratering, warning of a "prolonged downturn" in the housing market Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Labour report on executive pay proposes giving customers a vote on compensation, ending share-based compensation for execs Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: DIY epipens were just the start, now it's home bioreactors to thwart Big Pharma's price-gouging Cory Doctorow
law Court orders carriers to remotely brick phones that have been smuggled into prisons Cory Doctorow
corruption The Sackler Family: best known for philanthropy, they made billions promoting Oxycontin Cory Doctorow
security UK Home Secretary evolves the self-serving crypto-denialism argument with exciting new bullshit Cory Doctorow
