Patients are caught in the middle of a corporate money grab and lawmakers who refuse to regulate.
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Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The Conservative Who Torments Big Business
We are faced with corporate power so vast it spawned a conservative antitrust movement.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Aftermath: Oil Execs Thrill to Higher Profits From War
Plus: Why Iran won’t make a deal with Trump to end the crisis
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Warner Bros. Sale to the Ellisons Illustrates Perfectly Why Shareholder Capitalism Is a Disaster
99 percent of the company’s institutional shareholders voted to approve it. An equivalent share of the company’s workers and Hollywood generally opposed it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Ag Front Group Shields Bayer in Controversial Roundup Liability Fights
Public statements from the group led by Bayer’s head lobbyist ignore cancer risks of glyphosate-based pesticide.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Meta Is a Monopoly Even if TikTok Can Compete
It is foolish to suggest that competition anywhere proves that a company isn’t a monopoly.
Posted inWorking in America
Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund
The new nonprofit will put money directly into the hands of workers so they can fight harder and win bigger.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Americans Keep Paying a ‘Tariff Tax’?
Companies are seeking refunds from the federal government following the Supreme Court ruling—but consumers may still be stuck with higher prices.
Posted inTAP
Why Americans Hate Data Centers: Let Us Count the Ways
They fear AI. They fear higher electric bills. More reasons below.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Live Nation Verdict Serves as a Warning
Companies thought they could get away with anything while Donald Trump was in office. But today they have a new problem: state attorneys general, and juries full of ordinary Americans.