china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow

purges James Comey thought his firing was a prank Mark Frauenfelder

trumpism Department of Energy tells Trump they will not name climate policy personnel Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Climate purge: Trump demands list of Department of Energy climate negotiators Cory Doctorow

censorship Turkish dictator fires 15,000 more public workers, shuts down 375 more NGOs and 9 more news outlets Cory Doctorow

epa Federal court rules that Scott Pruitt’s sham EPA can’t ban scientists from its scientific advisory board Thom Dunn

usausausa Elizabeth Warren's plan to denazify America Cory Doctorow

privacy Not only is Google's auto-delete good for privacy, it's also good news for competition Cory Doctorow

corruption Phoenix's police union has a secret deal with the department to purge dirty cops' disciplinary records Cory Doctorow

politics Why don't more Chinese people oppose the Chinese government? Cory Doctorow

glam Louvre purges every mention of the Sackler opioid family after artist's protest Cory Doctorow

elections After Istanbul voters rejected Turkish strongman Erdogan, he made them vote again — and lost by the biggest landslide in 35 years Cory Doctorow

Business Chinese environment ministry finds widespread pollution coverups and corruption at the local government level Cory Doctorow

education Today, Michigan regulators vote on conservative education "reform" plan to purge the word "democracy" from curriculum Cory Doctorow

class war Burning Man purges one-percenter camp that charged up to $100K, littered like crazy, and ripped off its attendees Cory Doctorow

china Protests after violent seizure of Peking University's Marxist Society Cory Doctorow

Business Twitter stock drops 20.5% a day after Facebook suffers worst one-day drop in history Xeni Jardin

piketty How the "global super-rich" have honeycombed London's posh neighbourhoods with sub-basements, sub-sub-basements, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basements Cory Doctorow

swamp creatures EPA head Scott Pruitt is being investigated by the House of Representatives, Senate, White House, Office of Management and Budget, Government Accountability Office, and EPA Inspector General Mark Frauenfelder