economics We could fund the transition to green energy with 10-30% of the world's fossil fuel subsidy Cory Doctorow
corruption Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won't disclose what kind of factory it will build Cory Doctorow
kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Crowdfunding another year of Theyworkforyou, the UK's astounding, essential political tool Cory Doctorow
education NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt Cory Doctorow
homelessness Santa Monica expands highly successful rent subsidy program for seniors Jason Weisberger
health Big Pharma's origin: how the Chicago School and private equity shifted medicine's focus from health to wealth Cory Doctorow
uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow
crime Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape Cory Doctorow
Old school In 1943, the chairman of the NY Fed backed Modern Monetary Theory: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete" Cory Doctorow
Audio Podcast number 300: "Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today's Monopolies" Cory Doctorow
eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow
Business For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
apple DRM and terms-of-service have ended true ownership, turning us into "tenants of our own devices" Cory Doctorow
Business Foxconn promised it would do something with the empty buildings it bought in Wisconsin, but they're still empty (still no factory, either) Cory Doctorow
finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow
floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow
