debt Expected family contributions for college loans might be going away, thanks to COVID-19 Thom Dunn

education Student debt crisis watch: pay $18,000 of your $24,000 loan, owe $24,000 Cory Doctorow

gadgets 133 year-old Kodak, crushed by debt, warns it may go out of business Rob Beschizza

Donald Drumpf The Proud Boys are the latest MAGA cultists to break up with Trump Séamus Bellamy

Technology Someone hacked Seattle crosswalk buttons to broadcast fake Jeff Bezos messages about tax dodging Ellsworth Toohey

politics Jimmy Carter dead at 100 Rob Beschizza

censorship Egyptian cartoonist jailed over critical cartoons Ruben Bolling

politics Federal judge OK's Biden's student loan forgiveness plan Rob Beschizza

Alex Jones Alex Jones' empire crumbles: Infowars faces shutdown over $1.5 billion debt Mark Frauenfelder

Emerging nations crippled by $29 trillion in debt while creditors milk surcharges Ellsworth Toohey

economics Egypt raises price of bread by 300% Natalie Dressed

donald trump Rudy Giuliani's descent into debt and despair at Mar-a-Lago: a "nightmare world" of bankruptcy Mark Frauenfelder

politics Famously corrupt Italian Prime Minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi dead at 86 Rob Beschizza

pizza New Zealand's Hell Pizza offering new "pay after you die" scheme Jennifer Sandlin

gop RNC chairperson thinks global economic chaos will help the Republican party Jason Weisberger

colonialism Puerto Ricans resist disaster capitalists and "Puertopians" in Hurricane Maria's wake Elías Villoro

Just traveling, Officer Laugh at sovereign citizen antics in court Jason Weisberger

homelessness in america Private equity firms scooping up properties to maximize profits, increasing number of unhoused people Elías Villoro

racism Student loans as a strategy for social control Elías Villoro

crime Fraudsters stole $45.6 billion in pandemic assistance Rob Beschizza