politics Meet the MAGA supporter who unknowingly champions Karl Marx's ideas Mark Frauenfelder

Comics Black Mask launches new comic anthology to benefit striking writers Thom Dunn

ftc FTC proposes new rule to ban non-compete clauses Andrew Yi

climate change Patagonia founder transfers ownership to environmental trust Jennifer Sandlin

art Artists sell paintings of medical bills to pay medical bills David Pescovitz

oligarchy What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn

it was a dark and stormy night What it's like to collectively write a novel Clive Thompson

late stage capitalism #29leaks: someone leaked 15 years' worth of data from London's most notorious shell-company factory Cory Doctorow

usausausa Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes Cory Doctorow

happy mutants To do in San Francisco: Future Perfect: A Postcapitalist Adventure from Free Machine on March 24 Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole The "Tragedy of the Commons" was invented by a white supremacist based on a false history, and it's toxic bullshit Cory Doctorow

Business LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper Cory Doctorow

Business "Owning your data" will not save you from data capitalism Cory Doctorow

crime Forklift drivers block in a car driven by suspected tool thieves Mark Frauenfelder

uk Jeremy Corbyn: damned right we're a threat to the economic order Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Testing products for data privacy and security Geoffrey MacDougall, Consumer Reports

Science Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access Cory Doctorow

books Why are license "agreements" so uniformly terrible? Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz

uk Heads of UK's tax havens to Her Majesty's Government: go fuck yourself Cory Doctorow