Business Whistleblowers out Falwell's Liberty University as a grifty, multibillion-dollar personality cult Cory Doctorow
finance Consumer debt is "basically optional," but debt collectors rely on you not knowing that Thom Dunn
california The SCOTUS decision to let California demand the pork industry become slightly less cruel is pretty important Jason Weisberger
for whom the hipaa tolls Complaint filed after writer and "whistleblower" publish details of young trans patient Thom Dunn
How about global thermonuclear war? Perhaps Reddit is a bad place to teach your AI morality and ethics Jason Weisberger
News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
books 92-year-old's memoir tells the forgotten story of a German official who sabotaged Nazi deportations and saved more Jews than Schindler Cory Doctorow
class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow
security Why haven't cyberinsurers exerted more pressure on companies to be better at security? Cory Doctorow
racism #Rickyrenuncia: Bowing to popular pressure, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello has resigned Cory Doctorow
Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow