History Remembering Velma Demerson: Grand soul, feminist, human rights advocate and writer Harry Kopyto
class war Connecticut's racist NIMBYs have used zoning laws and dirty tricks to make it one of the most unequal, racially segregated states in the union Cory Doctorow
twitter TOSsed out: EFF catalogs the perverse ways that platform moderation policies hurt the people they're supposed to protect Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow
health Elizabeth Warren's bold, risky, well-intentioned plan to improve health outcomes for African-American mothers giving birth Cory Doctorow
education A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
AI To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow
class war Ghost warrants: US cops routinely arrest people for warrants that were canceled long ago, and lock them up for months before discovering the error Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Talking Radicalized with the LA Public Library: Trump derangement syndrome, engagement algorithms, and novellas as checked luggage Cory Doctorow
Business Big Tech's addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by "terrorizing" employees Cory Doctorow
education Lawyer for kid whose parents paid $1.2m bribe to get into Yale says the high price shows grifters' anti-Chinese bias Cory Doctorow
travel TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism What it's like to watch someone you love fall down the Fox News rabbit-hole Cory Doctorow
race Courts and cops don't know what to do with "sovereign citizens," the delusional far-rightists who claim the law doesn't apply to them Cory Doctorow
Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow
happy mutants A new edition of Octavia Butler's classic postapocalyptic Afrofuturist novel "Parable of the Sower," with an introduction by Hugo winner NK Jemisin Cory Doctorow
gender Owner of civil war reenactment business sues school district that canceled field trips after his far-right social media came to light Cory Doctorow
