usausausa The first-ever independent audit of whistleblower retaliation in US spy agencies was looking bad for the agencies, so it was shut down Cory Doctorow
Business Leaked Equifax documents provided to US Senate reveal that they dumped all our drivers' licenses, too, but Equifax says it's OK, so… Cory Doctorow
police Wichita cop who pulled the trigger in the first fatal swatting is being sued by the victim's family Cory Doctorow
usausausa Million-dollar lotto winner finally can afford a doctor visit, discovers he has terminal cancer and promptly dies Cory Doctorow
privacy America's school systems serve unencrypted web resources that are riddled with ad-tech trackers Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" Cory Doctorow
usausausa Majority of Democrats now hold favorable views of mass-murdering simpleton George W Bush Cory Doctorow
usausausa Police Get Out of Jail cards are just the tip of the iceberg: no perp gets a sweeter deal than a cop Cory Doctorow
health America's large hospital chains will start manufacturing generic drugs in order to beat shkrelic price-gouging Cory Doctorow
usausausa $300,000,000,000+: 2017's American "natural disaster" bill was by far the highest in history Cory Doctorow
Business The NSA can't recruit or retain hackers because the pay sucks and the Agency is a bureaucratic mess Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant Cory Doctorow
books Facsimile editions of the "Negro Motorist Green Books" from 1940, 1954 and 1963 are selling briskly in 2017 Cory Doctorow
scholarship American inequality is unequally distributed, and got lumpier after the Great Recession Cory Doctorow
usausausa Trump only managed one (really terrible) legislative goal in 2017, but his administration profoundly remade America for the worse Cory Doctorow
class war The majority of US workers live in "employment monopsonies" where there is little or no competition for workers Cory Doctorow
police 12 Michigan cops, looking for a 40-year-old white woman, draw guns on 11 year old black girl and put her in cuffs Cory Doctorow
scholarship Terrorism is way, way down, except in countries torn apart by civil war, often where the US has sent occupying troops Cory Doctorow
