tabloids Do the tabloids deserve a government bailout? This week’s dubious offerings make a poor case for their survival. Peter Sheridan
scams Online mattress sales have given rise to a new kind of con game – reselling filthy mattresses as new Mark Frauenfelder
Mormonism Whistleblower reports Mormon Church has amassed a $100 billion tax-free fund Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants A teenager describes his hilarious adventures installing a surplus, 1,500lb mainframe in his parents' basement Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole "The Tragedy of the Commons": how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought Cory Doctorow
white supremacy Ecofascism isn't new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in the environmental movement Cory Doctorow
health After Propublica expose, the "nonprofit," "Christian" Memphis University Hospital suspends practice of suing the shit out of poor people Cory Doctorow
health How Memphis's Methodist University Hospital, a "nonprofit," sued the shit out of its Black, poor patients while raking in millions and paying execs more than a million each Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Texas Instrument's post-#taxscam budget for financial engineering is $5B — triple its budget for actual engineering Cory Doctorow
crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow
monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
ireland Anti-corruption yellow vest protesters in Dublin's streets, protesting the 2008 bailout, Catholic church scandals, spiraling housing costs and no legal weed Cory Doctorow
scholarship Calculating Facebook's value by figuring out how much you'd have to pay users to quit Cory Doctorow
finance Here's how the Pentagon swindled Congress with $21 trillion worth of undocumented, untraceable, unaccounted for expenditures Cory Doctorow
