Oregon just made corporate medicine illegal, again. Here’s how it happened.
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inEconomic Policy
One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed
Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Humanitarian Aid Shooting Galleries in Gaza
The lessons no one learned from the World Central Kitchen massacre(s)
Posted inEconomic Policy
Usury in the Water
There’s never been a better time to be a loan shark for small businesses.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Runaway Tren
How a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump Scrambles to Pardon Corporate Criminals He Once Prosecuted
First the gutted CFPB pronounced ‘Whites Only’ marketing legal again. Now Boeing wants to renege on the sweetheart deal of the century.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Hospital Empire Is Closing Its Doors—but the Stock Is on a Tear
More than a dozen hospitals employing tens of thousands have either shut this year or are on the brink, while two shadowy figures prop up their owners’ stock.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Did Luigi Save the UnitedHealth Case?
While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Your Kink Is Health Care? Good Luck, Babe.
Fans have been pushing pop stars to take courageous political stands, but Chappell Roan’s skirmish with an obnoxious exec shows how hard it is for them to stand up even for themselves.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The DOGE Czar’s Plan to Loot Medicare
Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.