a Better Bubble™

Prospect

Euthanize This (Merger)

1 year 6 months ago
The merger of Cigna and Humana, America’s fifth- and sixth-largest for-profit health insurers, would create a monster middleman to ‘compete’ with the undisputed giant, UnitedHealth.
Maureen Tkacik

When One Story Isn’t Enough

1 year 6 months ago
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is a brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Osage people. But it doesn’t go far enough to explain how systemic it all was.
David Dayen

A Chance to Speak

1 year 6 months ago
Katie Anderson’s story shows the difficulty of finding some measure of accountability after being sexually assaulted.
David Dayen

Abortion Confusion in Texas

1 year 6 months ago
State courts must now decide how to handle life-threatening pregnancy issues that state attorneys, lawmakers, and medical officials refuse to clear up.
Gabrielle Gurley

Borderline Inanity

1 year 6 months ago
Today on TAP: The immigration mess is not likely to be solved by a bipartisan deal.
Robert Kuttner

Hard Times in the Back Yard

1 year 6 months ago
Bailed-out major airlines have outsourced ground work to subcontractors. Injuries and fatalities on the tarmac are taking off.
Lee Harris

Blocking Green Transitions

1 year 6 months ago
Today on TAP: Upending government policies, the Fed is doing that here, while the high court is doing that in Germany. Who elected these guys? (Nobody.)
Harold Meyerson

The Secret Trial

1 year 6 months ago
Google tried to withhold practically every critical detail from the public in its monopolization case. A band of advocates and journalists fought back.
Luke Goldstein

Google’s China Policy

1 year 6 months ago
How the National Security Council is trying to take over regulation of global data flows on the basis of what’s good for Big Tech
Robert Kuttner