james connolly What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn
bloomberg's legacy Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters Cory Doctorow
MMXX Welcome to 2020 and your annual State of the World discussion with Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and The WELL Cory Doctorow
matt stoller The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow
#moneylaundry Everything you wanted to know about money-laundering but were afraid to ask Cory Doctorow
entitlement effect The Oligarch Game: use coin-tosses to demonstrate "winner take all" and its power to warp perceptions Cory Doctorow
what the actual fuck seriously Civil society groups protest the sale of .ORG to a private equity fund and a collection of Republican billionaires Cory Doctorow
Only the little people pay taxes Trump pledged that Amazon would be forced to pay its taxes; thanks to his #taxscam, their profits went up and their taxes stayed $0.00 Cory Doctorow
opportunity zones Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow
sic semper stupid The corrupt Brazilian prosecutors who locked up Lula now want to release him, to make him less sympathetic Cory Doctorow
party like it's 1789 Having burnished their reputations with extravagant promises, the billionaires who pledged €600m. to rebuild Notre Dame are missing in action Cory Doctorow
irvings Billionaire newspaper monopolist family cancels editorial cartoonist after anti-Trump drawing Cory Doctorow
axis of avoidance The UK grew rich by looting the world; now it launders billions for other looters Cory Doctorow
think differently Big Tech lobbyists and "open for business" Tories killed Ontario's Right-to-Repair legislation Cory Doctorow
mafiyeh states Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow
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