Stories by pessimism

Controversial £7.5M NHS database scrapped quietly

Racially biased cancer doctors spend less time with black patients

Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Turn Silicon Valley into Detroit?

Why the controversy over an Iowa cartoonist is no laughing matter

Salesforce to rename Chase Tower in Indianapolis, hire 800

Diane Ravitch has a most unusual conversation with a billionaire school reformer

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The French conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories

Hillary-supporting super PAC invests $1M to attack online Clinton critics

How the Bin Laden Raid Put Vaccinators Under the Gun in Pakistan (2015)

Publicly Funded Clinical Trials: Sustained Innovation with Affordable Drugs

Panama Papers show how the very rich use art to get richer

Apple, Google have helped unlock phone data many times

Will a Drying Up of Tech Capital Lessen Inequality?

A data-driven argument on why Marc Andreessen is wrong about Free Basics

Twitter has 412 years to fix itself

Fair Use for the Rich and Fabulous?

If Patent Monopolies Bias Cancer Research, Why Not Have Publicly Funded Trials?

Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

Bitcoin’s place in the long history of pyramid schemes

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