What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What Really Happened on October 7?
And why, wonders a new Al Jazeera documentary, did the media go to such lengths to concoct gruesome X-rated versions of an attack that was harrowing enough to begin with?
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Strange Death of a Boeing Whistleblower
There’s no way America’s last great manufacturer murdered a prominent critic … is there?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘Return What You Stole and Be a Man With Dignity’
Doctors didn’t think it was possible to loathe the world’s biggest health care profiteer any more. Then came the hack that set half their bookkeeping systems on fire.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Zoomer Hackers Shut Down the Biggest Extortion Ring of All
A ransomware gang cripples UnitedHealthcare. Could a comprehensive antitrust investigation finish the job?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Scenes From the Bat Cave
How Steward Health left a Space Coast community hospital in a literal world of shit
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Attack of the Straw Doctors
Amazon and the Adderall pill-mill lobby blitz Oregon to kill a (tame) ‘corporate practice of medicine’ ban.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Blowing the Door Off Boeing’s ‘Epstein Deal’
The lawyer who busted open Jeffrey Epstein’s sweetheart deal sues DOJ for the goods on Trump’s slimy deferred prosecution agreement with the 737 manufacturer.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Moral Bankruptcy
The constitutional grant of a second chance for the destitute has become an enabler of reverse wealth redistribution. One wild case in Houston tells the story.