David Bollier

The Kids Are Alright

Four NYU students disgusted with Facebook launch an open-source, privacy-protecting alternative.

New student loan rules bypass fat-and-lazy banks.

Colorado landowners object to rafters floating through their private property.

Poisonous muck for miles: the perfect metaphor for our corrupted system.

Evo Morales's bold bet against privatization pays off.

Marcia Angell documents how drug companies have corrupted the integrity of drug research, medical education and clinical practice.

Conference explores how open source principles are changing politics, government and online life.

International conferences, manifestos and World Commons Day on October 15.

How open technologies can help higher education expand collaboration, innovation and public access to knowledge.

A mining company literally encloses a village commons in Camberwell, Australia.

A new online film explains how the patent system is out of control.

The growing fleet of posh private jets? We subsidize them.