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Trump Poised to Give Big Pharma a Big Present in India Trade Deal
Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are discussing an agreement that would lock the world’s second-most-populous country into exclusive prescription drug arrangements. Read more
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The Dialysis Duopoly Spends Big to Protect Profits in California
A scam to get patients to switch from Medicare to private insurance for dialysis care is being threatened by a bill in the Golden State. DaVita and Fresenius, the dialysis giants, have placed enormous funds into opposing it. Read more
Prospect Debate: The Cost of Sanders’s Single-Payer Health Plan
An exchange including Gerald Friedman, Kenneth Thorpe, and Paul Starr over the costs, resulting taxes, and political implications of Sanders's health plan Read more
Prospect Debate: Should We Fight ISIS?
An exchange over whether the United States should try to press the fight against the Islamic State or abandon it entirely. Read more
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The European Prospect (Fall Preview)
With all the pathologies of the 1930s resurgent, Europe's experiment in economic and social union has never been more at risk. Read more
Our Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China. Read more
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Refugee Blues
Right-wing, anti-immigrant nationalism has been on the rise in Europe. Can EU leaders still learn from history? Read more
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Why Mothers and Daughters Tangle Over Hair
While men's hair can often be neutral, women's hair is fraught with questions of sexuality, professionalism, and identity. Read more
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How to Live Happily with Robots
It takes extensive government intervention to assure that gains of automation are broadly shared. Read more
Urban Policing, Without Brutality
Cincinnati has emerged as a role model of policing reform—but even the best-in-show has a long way to go. Read more
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Betrayers of the Dream
How sleazy for-profit colleges disproportionately targeted black students. Read more
Should Liberals Back Public Employee Unions?
The stakes in the new battle over unions have far-reaching implications. Read more
The Politics of Virtual Reality
With inexpensive immersive media about to hit the market, we need to ask: How will they affect us? And can they be put to good use? Read more
Immigration and America's Urban Revival
The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies. Read more
How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north. Read more
When Adjuncts Go Union
On campuses across America, contingent faculty are fighting back against low wages and precarious employment. Read more
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Conscience and the Culture Wars
Conservatives say marriage equality and health-care laws threaten their religious freedom. Should they be exempt? Read more
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The Cyber Conundrum
Why the current policy for national cyber defense leaves us open to attack. Read more
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The Evolutionary Roots of Altruism
Do altruistic groups always beat selfish groups? A new book claims they do. Read more
