Prospect

These overdue charges take us only partway back to functioning democracy.

Dollar General is part of a trend of major retailers trying to move into medical care. Cut-rate treatment is the last thing needed in the vulnerable populations dollar stores serve.

How decades of policy failures led to the ever-powerful UnitedHealth Group

Wendy Dean, who co-authored a new book about moral injury in American medicine, says working in today’s health care system is ‘not the agreement that we thought we were making.’

Today on TAP: America’s industrial renaissance is happening faster than almost anyone anticipated.

Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.

The larger problem is feeble and captured regulation, resulting in multiple intra–executive branch fights.

Continuing interest rate hikes as the Black unemployment rate starts to tick up reveal a misunderstanding of monetary policy history.

Today on TAP: Far-right state governments fear allowing children to think for themselves.

The business of health care in America is deeply out of whack.

Meet a millennial family physician who is also a one-woman antidote to private equity and the forces that have destroyed compassionate treatment for patients.

What it doesn’t say is that the potential buying public is badly underpaid.

The Lehman-like collapse of a(nother) private equity–owned ER operator has physicians calling louder than ever for a strike.

Today on TAP: Give the platform monopolies credit for one thing. They are helping to create new areas of bipartisanship.

The Biden agenda is creating solar energy jobs in Republican districts. Is that good?

‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction

The big opening weekend contrasts with everything the studios have been doing for the last couple of decades.

‘Barbie’ captures those thoughts that are difficult for women to express.

The father of the atomic bomb still speaks to the danger of complacency.

Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.