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Here’s why they are still fighting.

President Biden’s SAVE plan isn’t going to rescue the tens of millions of Americans that together owe more than $1.7 trillion.

How American drug companies have exploited government contracts to pursue profit over public interest.

Coke knew their plastic would trash the planet…and did it anyway.

Medical debt has always been part of the history of nonprofit hospitals.

Two books argue that private equity created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts other values, undermining companies and evading the law.

Cable TV's backers sold the technology as a boon to democracy, but embraced a business model that chased niche audiences.

California cannabis breeding is at a crossroads.

Dan Flores reminds us that modern North Americans still walk in the footsteps of our fellow animals.

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

Stars of the movie about an iconic Mattel toy are on strike. Both the company’s history and Barbie’s plot illuminate how powerful corporations really are.

The ruthless logic driving our economy can be traced back to 19th-century Palo Alto.

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.

The deep roots of the latest WGA strike.

For over 20 years, Dr. Albert Kligman experimented on incarcerated men at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Those who profited have yet to redress the harm.

A recent viral sensation identifies the migration of poor whites as the cause of the problem—letting the rest of us off the hook!

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content.

A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?

The initial promise of Mexican factories in the 1960s gave way to impoverished communities and capital flight in search of higher profits.

The untold story of the private equity investors behind Mifeprex—and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs.

The evolution of the right to privacy.

On the terror that filled the void left by the retreat of federal authority in the South.

Worker sabotage is a weapon of the weak, but capitalist sabotage causes much greater damage.

How marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood.

How Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, a star-studded cemetery in Los Angeles, corporatized mourning in America.

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

The story of the modern web is often told through the stories of Google, Facebook, Amazon. But eBay was the first conqueror.

How a phrase tied to authenticity and resistance sometimes just dishes out entertainment.

For decades, consumers were duped into believing that a fat-free food label would put them on track for weight loss, when the complete opposite was true.

On inflation, institutions, and the governance of the price level.