Selling on Amazon is a tough business. Sure, you can reach a lot of customers, but this comes at a very high…
Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online…
Donald Trump’s tariffs demand a response. Around the world, that response has defaulted to retaliatory tariffs — a strategy with severe and…
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“If you’ve never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I’m here to tell you, it’s really hard. We need to…
Steinbeck never said that Americans see themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires,” but that misquotation is so pervasive because it captures something vital about…
Interview on the surveillance state, Edward Snowden, and the core values of a utopian society
Under the terms of the text, countries in the TPP can force each other to suspend legal proceedings if the trial would cause embarrassing information — information “detrimental to a party’s economic interests, international relations, or national defense or national security”
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