Business Real estate title insurance company exposed 885,000,000 customers' records, going back 16 years: bank statements, drivers' licenses, SSNs, and tax records Cory Doctorow

politics Border goons detain US citizen for having an opinion Ellsworth Toohey

finance Making sense of Stan Lee's many financial messes Thom Dunn

videogames Pong's creator auctioning off incredibly rare Atari protoypes and other videogame rarities David Pescovitz

Jesus Super Bowl Jesus Ad funded by groups fostering "hateful Christian Nationalism" Jennifer Sandlin

capitalism The failed promises of exporting American-style capitalism Elías Villoro

politics The origins of student debt Elías Villoro

prison labor Arizona makes millions selling imprisoned and unpaid laborers to companies Jennifer Sandlin

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

media New York Times' editorial board: free speech is a "fundamental right" not to be "shamed" or "shunned" Rob Beschizza

sears Sears closes its last department in Illinois, its home state Annie Rauwerda

the lincoln project Toyota is called out for supporting seditious politicians in scathing new ad Carla Sinclair

apple Apple fires misogynistic employee just hours after he was hired Mark Frauenfelder

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

climate change How fossil fuel companies are knowingly scheming to profit from climate change Thom Dunn

politics Georgia On My Mind Jordan Kurland

COVID-19 Trump's 50-point plan for a second-term is impressively hollow and meaningless. Thom Dunn

tabloids Kim Jong-un is dead, Prince Andrew is broke, and Kobe Bryant killed himself, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Social security for all — for now Maureen Herman

health Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room "surprise bills": private equity firms that own doctors' practices Cory Doctorow