happy mutants Portland proposes a special tax on companies where CEOs make 100X more than median employee Cory Doctorow

cars Volkswagen locks extra horsepower behind $20 monthly subscription Grant St. Clair

law 102 children worked hazardous jobs cleaning American slaughterhouses Rob Beschizza

prisons Interviews with people in prison about how they make money behind bars Mark Frauenfelder

walmart Walmart fired a worker with Down syndrome. A judge just ordered it to rehire her. Rob Beschizza

workers Whatever happened to the company that decided to pay all of its employees a $70K minimum wage? Thom Dunn

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

Boing Boing Gadgets Plungers are disgusting so the Toiletsaber is changing the toilet clearing game Boing Boing's Shop

Disney Disneyland's laundry used "gamification" as an "electronic whip," leading to worker stress and injuries Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Elizabeth Warren wants to save capitalism from itself Cory Doctorow

class war Full time minimum wage workers can't afford the rent on a 2-bedroom apartment anywhere in the USA Cory Doctorow

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Business German VW exec is going to US prison for seven years for his role in Dieselgate Cory Doctorow

Comic Books How the best Donald Duck story of all time skewered capitalism Peter Schilling Jr.

President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin

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Games What it's like to be on Jeopardy Glenn Fleishman