canada Canadian scolding of Saudi Arabia's human rights violations means nothing if they continue to sell them weapons Seamus Bellamy
History Juneteenth: "Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones." David Pescovitz
Business FTC orders Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to provide details on prior acquisitions of small companies Xeni Jardin
Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow
corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow
uk US pharma and biotech lobbyists' documents reveal their plan to gouge Britons in any post-Brexit trade-deal Cory Doctorow
Business TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance wants you to know everything is just fine, really Xeni Jardin
politics New Brexit deal announced. It's Theresa May's one but with a border in the Irish sea Rob Beschizza
Business Thomas Cook travel collapsed and stranded 150,000 passengers, but still had millions for the execs who tanked it Cory Doctorow
elections Elizabeth Warren publishes a massive, detailed plan for addressing the injustice of US relations with indigenous American peoples Cory Doctorow
Technology Facebook finally cuts 3rd-party 'friend data' access for Microsoft and Sony, under $5B FTC deal Xeni Jardin
videos Stephen Fry explains the vast superiority of UK healthcare to America's omnishambles, which Brexiteers hope to import Cory Doctorow
Business Business schools are shuttering full-time MBA programs, citing low enrollment, millennials Cory Doctorow
Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow
