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The seven largest publicly traded U.S. health insurance companies made a collective $71.3 billion in profits last year, and their CEOs took home a total of $146.1 million in…
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For years, Donald Trump has projected an image of supreme confidence—boasting about his intelligence, touting his memory, and mocking political opponents as feeble-minded or senile. But…
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There was a time—long ago, when the Earth was cooling and economists still wore bow ties unironically—when the Bureau of Labor Statistics toiled quietly in the chiaroscuro shadows of…
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There was a time—not long ago, though it feels like several scandals ago—when Donald Trump demanded full disclosure of the Epstein files. “Open it up!” he declared, arms raised as if…
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And it’s no longer just Trump we should worry about. Check out your local commissions, school boards, and sheriff’s offices, for example. They all seem to be goose-stepping to MAGA’s…
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His most dangerous crime is not simply corruption or obstruction, nor even incitement of insurrection: It’s the deliberate attempted destruction of American democracy itself.
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Imagine one Maria Torres—a mother of three and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. On a quiet morning in Phoenix federal agents knock on her door. She isn't under investigation.…
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Inflation figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics offered what economists described as early evidence that President Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies are…
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Meetings between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are more akin to a master class in posturing and duplicity than in diplomacy. Last week’s…
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When did we become so cruel? Or have we always been, and I just haven't noticed?
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