economics It's time to kill the carbon credit Thom Dunn

COVID-19 How Disney execs and COVID-19 wrecked the lives of middle-class Disney World workers Thom Dunn

movies TV writers and actors made a wonderfully awful Batman short film for charity Thom Dunn

economics Deutsche Bank thinks people should pay a 5% "privilege tax" to work from home Thom Dunn

Election 2020 Goldman-Sachs says a 'Blue Wave' is the only way to save the economy Thom Dunn

COVID-19 The complex insurance math that tries to calculate the risk of pandemics Thom Dunn

starbucks Starbucks says "it will thrive" right before telling landlords they must lower the rent Carla Sinclair

COVID-19 Right-wing websites are weighing the pros and cons of letting people die from coronavirus to help the economy Thom Dunn

economic collapse Venezuela just defaulted on its debt Mark Frauenfelder

private affluence public squalor Everything is fine in the UK, thanks to the Tories Mark Frauenfelder

russia Chinese woman spent a decade building Borgesian fake Russian history on Wikipedia Thom Dunn

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

Boing Boing Gadgets Save up to 70 percent on flashlights and other outdoor lighting tools for the summer Boing Boing's Shop

neoliberalism The dystopian roots of the concept of "Meritocracy" Thom Dunn

long bets Kevin Kelly's 25-year bet with a neo-Luddite has been decided Mark Frauenfelder

economics Economist Richard Murphy explains what money and taxes actually are and how they work Thom Dunn

Twitter is for wimps — r/Collapse delivers the best doomscrolling experience Mark Frauenfelder

trump virus Trailer for documentary about the United States' disastrous Covid-19 response Mark Frauenfelder

News U.S. economy shrank at record-breaking 33% last quarter, as 1.4M sought unemployment aid last week Xeni Jardin

tabloids Unstoppable plague, Doomsday is here, and Cruel Meghan, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan