Black markets are developing a sort of cell system by which the participants can't identify each other and can't betray each other. The customers never see any of them, and they can't identify the customers either.

As sale of prohibited goods becomes anonymous and safe, lawful sales of lawful goods are becoming a dangerous system of massive surveillance. When will we be able to buy those through a darknet, for our privacy?

If Tor sold its DRM-free contract-free e-books through a darknet, I would in principle (some details are crucial) be glad to buy them straight from the publisher that way.

Charter schools are like tree roots growing into cracks in the building of public education. If not stopped, they will bring it crashing down.

Teacher's strikes are weakening the political support that charter schools have obtained in the plutocratist system.

Facebook staff discussed in a tone of cupidity how they were leading minors to spend their parents' money playing games. Facebook kept the parents confused about the situation, too.

In an age when the US imprisons far too many people, a prosecutor as president (or other elected official) is in general a bad idea.

Globalization's irony: Spice Girls t-shirts, sold to raise money to campaign for equality, were made in a factory in Bangladesh by women getting paid around 30 cents per hour.

The book No Logo explained how business-supremacy treaties knocked down the unions that were starting to raise the wages of factory workers in some low-wage countries.

The article also shows, tangentially, how the practice of despising sex workers is tied into broader misogyny.