David Bollier

Ending the Student Loan Boondoggle

Banks are inept, inefficient and corrupt parasites on the federal student loan program.

Why Price Has Become an Unreliable Metric of Value

U.S. PIRG report documents the sell-off of public highways and construction of private toll roads.

Expanding access to digitized books while building an unprecedented monopoly.

The knotty challenges of putting our civic and cultural patrimony online.

Report urges government to charge rent for private uses of common assets.

A pilot project hints at the larger potential of wiki-government.

The shock is not the greed, inequity and political complicity, but seeing it so starkly.

Secret intellectual property treaty could profoundly change life on the Internet

A conference in Seattle explores the legal framework of a commons-based society