scholarship Academic audit of HUD budget finds $351 million in unaccounted-for spending since 1998 Cory Doctorow
politics Alex Jones trial moves to the punitive damages phase, with hypothetical (if unlikely) awards in the trillions Rob Beschizza
climate change How fossil fuel companies are knowingly scheming to profit from climate change Thom Dunn
crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow
canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei
corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The weak spots that let journalists expose the finances of looters, organized criminals and oligarchs Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people Cory Doctorow
LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt Cory Doctorow