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The Pain Profiteers
Two new books reveal the distortion of the U.S. health care system by financial operators.
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The Giant Pandemic Pool of Money
A new book details the penny-ante crooks extracting federal cash during COVID, and the disastrous budget decisions that gave them the opportunity.
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A Personal History Along Route 28
Danica Roem, the nation’s first openly transgender state legislator, triumphed by owning her story and focusing on what voters care about.
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The Privatization Myth
A deeply reported history of the past four decades of handing public services over to private companies provides a stunning account of how not to govern.
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What Common Good?
Adrian Vermeule has a new constitutional theory that hides its religious foundations.
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The Cure for Hate Speech Is Not More Speech
A new book considers how colleges and universities should deal with committed racists.
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How High Energy Prices Emboldened Putin
Rupert Russell’s new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn’t be more timely.
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Homelessness Meets Cluelessness
Michael Shellenberger applies conservative culture war clichés to the housing problem.
