media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt 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
happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow
finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bernie Sanders announces a farmers' right-to-repair and antitrust proposal similar to Elizabeth Warren's Cory Doctorow
Democrats A Sanders candidacy would make 2020 a referendum on the future, not a referendum on Trump Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bernie Sanders raises $18.2m from 525,000 small-money donors (including me) Cory Doctorow
politics Bernie Sanders cut his head on shower door, got 7 stitches, shows up to a health care town hall 2 hours later Xeni Jardin
elections The eminently electable Bernie Sanders enjoys strong support from African-Americans and young people Cory Doctorow
class war Bernie Sanders introduces the Stop Walmart Act: no stock buybacks without a $15 minimum wage Cory Doctorow
eu Bernie Sanders and Yanis Varoufakis announce Progressives International, to counter rising ultra-nationalism Cory Doctorow
economics Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz on how the US economy became a "rigged, inherited plutocracy" and how to fix it Cory Doctorow
economics Modern Monetary Theory: why government spending isn't like household checkbooks Cory Doctorow