uk British schoolchildren receive chemical burns from "toxic ash" on Ash Wednesday Cory Doctorow

gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The paradox of good government: the best stuff works well and is thus unnoticeable (and therefore easy to sell off) Cory Doctorow

MAGA logic Racist Congressman blames recent Ohio train derailments on diversity (video) Carla Sinclair

maps Redlining maps show racism and white supremacy "in 1930s technicolor" Elías Villoro

a well-regulated militia I saw this most asinine bumper sticker today on a car in Phoenix Jennifer Sandlin

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

britain Why Essex is crap, or at least why everyone thinks it is Rob Beschizza

Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow

gop Noam Chomsky takes ten minutes to explain everything you need to know about the Republican Party in 2019 Cory Doctorow

Dinos DCCC introduces No-More-AOCs rule Cory Doctorow

infrastructure Minnesota AG's report reveals big telcos are literally letting their infrastructure rot Cory Doctorow

books Winners Take All: Modern philanthropy means that giving some away is more important than how you got it Cory Doctorow

finance New Sanders bill: If a bank is too big to fail, it's too big to exist Cory Doctorow

humor Every U.S. president dragged Rob Beschizza

News Scott Pruitt quits EPA after corruption exposed by staffers. His resignation letter to Trump is bonkers. Xeni Jardin

late stage capitalism World Bank recommends that countries eliminate minimum wage, dismantle wrongful dismissal rules and contractual protections for workers Cory Doctorow

she blinded me with ringtones How Thomas Dolby helped create the first polyphonic ringtones Clive Thompson