Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants.
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Posted inPodcasts
Farewell to a Crypto-Nazi Blowhard
Tucker Carlson was fired from his Fox News job. Nobody has deserved it more.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans’ War on Their Own Public Health
Tens of thousands of conservatives died because they believed anti-vaccine lies. Now the GOP is bringing back measles and polio.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Democrats Struggle to Face the Illegitimate Court System
A few Democratic members of Congress understand what needs to be done. More should join them.
Posted inWorking in America
Rural Letter Carriers Complain About Dramatically Reduced Pay
After a new evaluation system is implemented, some workers could lose $8,000 per year or more. Threats to quit have been widespread.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Exxon’s Unethical Supreme Court Play
Oil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from.
Posted inTAP
McCarthy’s Losing Game of Debt Chicken
Today on TAP: Everything has to break right for the hapless Speaker to pass his budget, and even then Biden holds all the cards.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Lobbyists Explain How They Took Over Washington
An amazing research paper unearths how the tech industry invented the concept of digital trade and sold it to government officials.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Jared Bernstein: Principle Meets Decency
Biden’s most progressive senior economic adviser wins surprising Republican support.
Posted inPolitics
Returning to the Scene of the Great Police Riot
The Democrats will convention in Chicago next year, and it’s not clear that they’ll get a warm welcome from the cops.
