Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow
Business Countries with higher levels of unionization have lower per-capita carbon footprints Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people Cory Doctorow
Business Understanding "transfer pricing": how corporations dodge taxes through financial colonialism Cory Doctorow
health The widening health gap between America's rich and poor is the result of worse health for the poor, not better health for the rich Cory Doctorow
scholarship Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow
scholarship Gabriel Zucman: the Piketty-trained "wealth detective" who catalogued the secret fortunes of the super-rich and figured out how to tax them Cory Doctorow
health Twitter users answer the question: "When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?" Cory Doctorow
finance AOC grills Equifax CEO: the Congressional record now contains the obvious, infuriating truth that everyone else already knew Cory Doctorow
scholarship Study shows that countries that permit Facebook's beloved "zero rating" programs end up with more expensive wireless data Cory Doctorow
infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow
corruption Mining the Panama Papers and other leaks to reveal the hidden looting of West Africa by its corrupt elite Cory Doctorow
