deaths Bernie Madoff, operator of world's largest Ponzi scheme, dead at 82 Rob Beschizza

MAGA billionaire who opposed offshoring is offshoring 150 Ohio jobs to China Ellsworth Toohey

politics Gavin Newsom's new podcast is political suicide (video) Jason Weisberger

donald trump Bernie Sanders excoriates the Dems Jennifer Sandlin

hollywood Kevin Sorbo claims being a Christian stifles his career, despite Tom Hanks thriving with the same faith Mark Frauenfelder

prison Superpredator panics, Three Strikes Laws, and other failed reforms Elías Villoro

Garden State of Mind Once again, Fetterman roasts Oz Jason Weisberger

politics Politicians keep writing children's books. Most are quite bad. Annie Rauwerda

serious business Twitter bans "fake" Amazon workers praising company Rob Beschizza

elon musk Senators Sanders, Markey, and Gildebrand want to tax billionaires for their pandemic profits Thom Dunn

sponsored As long as we don't call it "Legalization," Biden is in favor of it Boing Boing

politics Joe Biden projected to win Michigan, Mississippi, & Missouri Democratic primaries Xeni Jardin

News Leaked Twitter demo shows red banners to indicate lies and disinformation under tweets Xeni Jardin

science fiction RIP, Mike Resnick Cory Doctorow

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

corruption Hunter Biden's Ukraine gig was corrupt, just not in the way Republican conspiracists claim it was Cory Doctorow

education Even if you pay off your student loan, be prepared to spend decades trying to get bottom-feeding debt-buyers to acknowledge it Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism America's life-expectancy income-gap widens precipitously Cory Doctorow

human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow

finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow