Our investigative editor’s favorites for 2023
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The University of Phoenixification of Elite Education
What does the oligarch behind the ‘Ivy League antisemitism crisis’ actually want?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Actually, Opioid Victims Love the Sackler Immunity Shields
And other fake news from the Supreme Court’s Purdue Pharma hearing
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Euthanize This (Merger)
The merger of Cigna and Humana, America’s fifth- and sixth-largest for-profit health insurers, would create a monster middleman to ‘compete’ with the undisputed giant, UnitedHealth.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
When a Feminist Content Sweatshop Was the Coolest Thing On the Internet
Jezebel is widely blamed for starting “cancel culture.” But 16 years ago, most culture desperately needed to be canceled.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The AMA Debates a Federal Ban on Corporate Medicine
A new guard is pushing the (once passionately pro-corporate) doctors’ trade group to clamp down on health care profiteering.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Slow Cooker of Corporate Flameouts
A band of Reddit contrarians tried to make Rite Aid the first meme stock. A truly staggering series of miscues thwarted their dreams.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan
The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The No Spin-Off Zone
The Kroger-Albertsons merger shows us why regulators need to permanently divest the concept of, well, divesting.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The [REDACTED] Case Against Amazon
You go to information war with the clickbait you have.