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
facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers 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
aoc Bipartisan groups call on Congress to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment, which Gingrich killed in 1995 Cory Doctorow
politics How a 13-year-old boy was radicalized by the alt-right, then figured out they were full of it Rob Beschizza
Business Big Tech's addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by "terrorizing" employees Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Labour report on executive pay proposes giving customers a vote on compensation, ending share-based compensation for execs Cory Doctorow
Business Restaurant servers can't afford San Francisco rents so restaurants are going self-serve Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Mass protests against IMF austerity force Jordan's Prime Minister to resign Cory Doctorow
Business Now that public companies must publish the CEO-median worker wage ratio, cities and states can tax the most unequal firms Cory Doctorow
class war If the UK's minimum wage had risen with its executive pay, the lowest paid jobs in the country would be worth £26K/year Cory Doctorow
uk "Economic murder": Senior UK public health researchers say 120,000 people died under Tory austerity Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Announce your pronouns with these gender-positive patches and merit badges Rusty Blazenhoff
