Economics

Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?

Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data? Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?

Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem.

Dec 3, 2020 / Feature / Tim Schwab

Three portraits

9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth? 9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth?

“Thanks Forgiving,” a poem.

Dec 2, 2020 / Verandah Porche

Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand next to each other behind a gate.

This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order

In Cedar Point Nursery, conservatives are invoking a Jim Crow version of property rights.

Dec 2, 2020 / Nathan Newman

How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System

How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System

Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for profit, not people.

Dec 2, 2020 / Feature / Susie Cagle

A man in a housekeeping uniform adjusts a mirror in a bathroom.

These Visa Recipients Are Stuck in the US And Demanding Their Rights These Visa Recipients Are Stuck in the US And Demanding Their Rights

J-1 recipients say the visa program is as an unregulated pipeline for temporary migrant labor that props up the US hospitality industry.

Dec 1, 2020 / Noah Flora

Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency

Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency

In the last decade, more than a dozen hospitals have closed in the region.

Dec 1, 2020 / Photo Essay / Stacy Kranitz and Magnum Foundation

Privatizing Puerto Rico

Privatizing Puerto Rico Privatizing Puerto Rico

The rushed sell-off of the territory’s electrical utility is part of a larger move to gut public goods for private profit.

Dec 1, 2020 / Feature / Ed Morales

Hope and History

Hope and History Hope and History

Looking forward.

Nov 30, 2020 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández

How Monopolies Have Taken Over Our Everyday Lives

How Monopolies Have Taken Over Our Everyday Lives How Monopolies Have Taken Over Our Everyday Lives

Once you put on your “monopoly decoder ring,” David Dayen writes in his new book, you start to see how monopolies influence almost every part of American society.

Nov 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Bryce Covert

5 Stages of Loss

5 Stages of Loss 5 Stages of Loss

Denying a peaceful transfer.

Nov 27, 2020 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

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