finance The richest person in every state, by industry Andrea James

corruption Fuerdai: Paris Hilton with Chinese characteristics Cory Doctorow

Business Matt Taibbi's The Divide: incandescent indictment of the American justice-gap Cory Doctorow

social media New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Buzzfeed say they won't pay for Twitter verification Mark Frauenfelder

nineties Old but gold: The Sunscreen Song Rusty Blazenhoff

Boing Boing Gadgets This Black Friday, gift yourself a new skill with Doorbuster deals on e-learning courses Boing Boing's Shop

wealth How rich do you have to be to make it into the 1 percent? Mark Frauenfelder

politics Sheldon Adelson dead at 87, Sands casino mogul and Trump financial backer was in failing health for a long time, say those who knew him Xeni Jardin

writing Rules for Predicting the Future, according to Octavia Butler Thom Dunn

magazine Popular Pandemics magazine: "Suggestions and succor for Current Situation" Rusty Blazenhoff

north carolina Reparation plan approved by Asheville, North Carolina council Rusty Blazenhoff

art Modern porcelain sculpture about greed made in classical Chinese style Andrea James

corruption America's most popular governor: the lavishly corrupt Larry Hogan [R-MD] Cory Doctorow

kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The poorest half of Americans have nothing left, so now the 1%'s growth comes from the upper middle class Cory Doctorow

elections Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow

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

health The widening health gap between America's rich and poor is the result of worse health for the poor, not better health for the rich Cory Doctorow

science fiction Ted Chiang's "Op Ed From the Future": socialized transhumanism vs American oligarchy Cory Doctorow