trumpism Betsy DeVos quietly spends millions to promote the unpopular policies she hopes to enact as a federal official Cory Doctorow
trumpism Scott Pruitt's EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial industry to find "scientists" and other "experts" Cory Doctorow
north korea Kim Jong-un can't find enough sketchy money launderers to handle his $5 billion crypto crime spree Ellsworth Toohey
crypto Crypto scammer shifts to scamming insurance in the struggle to pay for his legal defense Jason Weisberger
Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin
corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow
corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow
videos Watch: Tim Wu debates trustbusting with Tyler Cowen, who just wrote "a love letter" to Big Business Cory Doctorow
Copyfight The EU hired a company that had been lobbying for the Copyright Directive to make a (completely batshit) video to sell the Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Artist Nan Goldin leads protests at the Guggenheim and the Met over their reputation-laundering of the Sacklers' opioid epidemic fortunes Cory Doctorow
trumpism Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow
corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow
trumpism Why "leftism" is parting ways with "liberalism" and what it means for the future of American politics Cory Doctorow
Business An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be "anonymized" and how we should handle release of large data-sets Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump waives criminal punishments for convicted banks, including Deutsche Bank, to whom he owes $130,000,000-$300,000,000 Cory Doctorow
law The crooked Secret Service agent who stole Silk Road bitcoins did it again after pleading guilty Cory Doctorow
