An unusually detailed health care policy platform from Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, attacks Big Insurance, Big Pharma, and big hospital systems for putting profits over care.
South Carolina
Posted inTAP
Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.
Posted inTechnology
South Carolina: From Slaves to Bots
The state that was the foremost champion of unpaid human labor now fosters a new-age version of it.
Posted inPolitics
Is Chaos the Point in South Carolina?
Seems to be, but overzealous Republican state legislators steamrolling new congressional maps onto baffled voters may end up in a world of hurt.
Posted inPolitics
Centrists: Better Things Aren’t Possible
Third Way’s strategy session for Democratic moderates lacked any vision other than a hatred for progressives.
Posted inPolitics
President Biden’s Speech to Black Americans Won’t Bring Them Home—Yet
Is it time for Biden to be Biden?
Posted inPolitics
Biden’s New Hampshire Blunder
Thanks to an ill-considered move by Joe Biden and the DNC, several fringe Democrats will be on the ballot in the nation’s first primary, and the president will be on the sidelines.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Q&A: Charleston’s Coming Storm
Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford dissects how the South Carolina city ignores its Black residents and its climate realities.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Predatory Lending’s Prey of Color
Black and Latino borrowers are more likely to get trapped in cycles of debt, because they have few other options for dealing with structural poverty.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Bipartisan Highway to Hell—or Heaven?
State and local governments will decide if the infrastructure package makes climate change better or worse.