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

Business WeWork was once "valued" at $47 billion. Now it's bankrupt Rob Beschizza

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

music The ongoing legacies of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Elías Villoro

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

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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