protests Nicaragua outlaws its citizens' right to protest Séamus Bellamy

politics Democracy in Chile and the ghosts of Pinochet Elías Villoro

tv commercials Watch Mikhail Gorbachev star in a Pizza Hut commercial David Pescovitz

police Watch body cam footage of police bragging about hunting activists Thom Dunn

corruption Private equity firms should be abolished Cory Doctorow

Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow

television The time Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial David Pescovitz

law South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow

elections Elizabeth Warren's banking proposals are designed to demolish the private equity sector and force finance to serve the people Cory Doctorow

Democrats Elizabeth Warren proposes debt relief for Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow

corruption Pentagon Inspector General reveals widespread retaliation against whistleblowers with impunity for the retaliators and the wrongdoers Cory Doctorow

australia Aussie cops filmed beating kid with autism, disabled senior, and more Rob Beschizza

Business Canada Pension Plan is long on US private prisons and immigrant detention centers Cory Doctorow

putin Russians' support for Putin drops off a cliff after pension cuts Cory Doctorow

usausausa "Like Lord of the Flies": working at the TSA really sucks Cory Doctorow

nicaragua Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega: from hero to Nero Séamus Bellamy

class war 2018 tsunami: Teachers lead mass strikes in four red states that voted for Trump in 2016 Cory Doctorow

Business West Virginia is contagious: mass teacher walkouts in Kentucky and Oklahoma Cory Doctorow

class war How 401(k)s created a class of suckers to be fleeced by the investor class Cory Doctorow

neoliberalism In the US and UK, retirement is only for the super-rich Cory Doctorow