boondoggle Trump's border wall construction now a rusting heap of steel Gareth Branwyn

video games Square Enix reports massive loss of income Grant St. Clair

health Medicare for All would cut most Americans' taxes, creating the biggest American take-home pay raise in a generation Cory Doctorow

china MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP ratios? Cory Doctorow

economics Profile of Mariana Mazzucato, the economist who's swaying both left and right politicians with talk of "the entrepreneurial state" Cory Doctorow

elections When Republicans say "How will you pay for Medicare for All?" Democrats should answer: "Mexico will pay for it" Cory Doctorow

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

monopolism Bill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we'll just have more bad companies Cory Doctorow

class war Assessing Occupy's legacy Cory Doctorow

education Zuck turned American classrooms into nonconsensual laboratories for his pet educational theories, and now they're rebelling Cory Doctorow

privacy Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting Cory Doctorow

gop As Wisconsin's corporate welfare to Foxconn keeps rising, the number of jobs to be created keeps falling Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The peculiar hazards of megaprojects Cory Doctorow

Journalism Africa is littered with abandoned poorly-planned aid projects Andrea James

happy mutants A Good American: a documentary about Bill Binney, an NSA whistleblower who says 9/11 could have been prevented Cory Doctorow

politics Texas county commissioner candidate's election ad is pretty great Cory Doctorow

publishing What publishers should do David Moldawer