stLouIST‘Return What You Stole and Be a Man With Dignity’
Doctors didn’t think it was possible to loathe the world’s biggest health care profiteer any more. Then came the hack that set half their bookkeeping systems on fire.
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UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Primary Season Is Ending
On this week’s live show, Ryan Cooper and David Dayen discuss Super Tuesday, the State of the Union, and what it all means for November.
A Capital Crime
Today on TAP: Fed Chair Jerome Powell is sabotaging a rule requiring stronger capital standards for banks—that he pretended to support.
This Is Your Brain on Nationalism
George Orwell outlined the problems with nationalism in the 1940s.
The Strategic Shouting of Biden’s State of the Union
Loud and proud, Biden dispelled the ‘lack of energy’ issue while promoting an economics to which the GOP has no real rejoinder.
Intel’s $3.5 Billion Boondoggle
The microchip giant’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
Biden’s Trustbusters Face Hurdles From Within
Despite successes in fighting corporate power, the message is muddled.
The Incoherence of Our Gaza Policy
Today on TAP: We provide Palestinians life’s necessities by air and sea, and provide Israel the arms to deny them those same necessities.
New York City’s Last Dictatorship
After 20 years, New York reconsiders mayoral control of its education system.
Conflicts of Interest Surround the DOJ Antitrust Budget Cut
The Senate Appropriations Committee, which struck the deal to cut the Antitrust Division’s budget, has a revolving-door problem.
Controlling Birth Control
On the eve of over-the-counter birth control pills, the GOP can’t possibly convince Americans that the right to contraception is wrong.
What Super Tuesday Portends
Today on TAP: Biden has opportunities to make real gains. Will he maximize them?
Biden Is Losing Not With a Bang but a Whimper
Where’s Dark Brandon when you need him?
The Spectacle of Policing
‘Swatting’ innocent people is the latest incarnation of the decades-long gestation of an infrastructure of fear.
Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients
As UnitedHealth racks up unprecedented profits, the people it insures battle for care.
Son of Bush v. Gore
The Supreme Court’s ‘Gang of Five,’ to help out Donald Trump, rules that the Constitution doesn’t mean what it says.
Congress Poised to Kneecap Antitrust Division
Just as the White House begins to lean on competition policy, Congress’s government funding bill cuts the Antitrust Division’s budget by 20 percent.
The Corrupt Supreme Court Bails Out Trump Once More
America does not have to be ruled by an unelected council of high priests.
A Feel-Good Movie That Almost Makes You Feel Bad
‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ is uplifting and happy-sad. It was a more innocent time.