Building on Regan Boychuk's work, I take a quantitative look at how newspapers in Canada's oilpatch censor the reporting of environmental journalist Mike De Souza.
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There's a straight line that connects elite wealth concentration to corporate consolidation, and the neoliberal wave of mergers and acquisitions.
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DT Cochrane and I look at the network of corporate power behind Canada’s richest families.
With my postdoctoral fellowship wrapping up, I muse about what comes next.
I’m sick of the AI hype and scaremongering. The idea that AI could take over the world is laughable.
Twitter trolls don’t think much of my chart relating income inequality to murder rates. Here’s a detailed response.
How do you tell the story of plutocratic crime? If you’re Cory Doctorow, you write a detective novel about a forensic accountant. It’s a must-read book that sheds light on the often-ignored world of elite finance.