A new book analyzes the dysfunction of the current system and argues healthcare should be available to everyone in America as a right — automatic and free of charge when we need it.
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Gisella Bayona who announced her resignation from journalism due to threats against her family, is one of many cases in which journalists from both the left and the right claim to have been pressured by the government to abandon their investigative reporting.
Jeffrey Sachs joins Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain to discuss how Washington’s delusions about American power are fueling wars abroad and a financial bubble at home.
Historian Fara Dabhoiwala on the 18th-century hack who invented free speech absolutism and then sold out to the government—and why that same doctrine now shields Big Tech and the powerful instead of the public.
The Trump administration is part of an international trend of business elites entering government and using commercial relationships as tools of diplomacy and geopolitical influence.
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A new study from the Trump administration is sending alarm bells through pro-democracy groups for its potential to fuel a crackdown on Americans who support LGBTQ+ rights — or anyone with left-leaning views. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a study that reaches a dramatic conclusion: Those who support transgender people may be more [...]
The philanthropist promised a biotech-fueled productivity boom for farmers, but the data shows sluggish yields and rising hunger. Where is the accountability?
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