Balance is a verb. One minute of Trump's speech vs. the 5 seconds we'll show on the news Rob Beschizza
News How American singer-songwriter and record producer Maggie Rogers detoxed from the addictive drug of fame Yoy Luadha
finance Consumer debt is "basically optional," but debt collectors rely on you not knowing that Thom Dunn
politics Brexiteer Nigel Farage "couldn't maintain the minimum balance" for posh bank (Update: Bank admits it closed its account over his politics) Rob Beschizza
America's Mayor Giuliani says the "attack" slap on his back was so severe that the "reverberations" nearly knocked over the woman standing beside him Mark Frauenfelder
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music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia
graeber Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people Cory Doctorow
tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week's round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan
happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow
law European legal official OKs orders that force Facebook to globally remove insults to politicians like "oaf" and "fascist" (as well as synonyms) Cory Doctorow
eff The European Copyright Directive: What is it, and why has it drawn more controversy than any other Directive in EU history? Cory Doctorow
