The McKinsey Opioid Consultants Who Got Away
The Biden administration just delivered a sweetheart deal to its friends at McKinsey, letting the consulting giant off the hook for helping to “turbocharge” disastrous OxyContin sales.
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Banning The Bans
Censorship gets banned, youth score a climate win, nurses win a major union vote, workers’ rights are clear and unmistakable, and small businesses go boom.
How Marvel Helped Sell Us Forever Wars
Can a comic book icon of military power be used to challenge war propaganda?
Buy Now, Suffer Later
The promises of Klarna and other “buy now, pay later” companies are too good to be true.
The Dangerous Lie Behind On-Demand Nursing
“Uber for nurses” is extracting profits and hurting health care, all to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
The Deadly Consequences Of UnitedHealth’s Unchecked Growth
Failure to block the insurance giant’s market consolidation, including by a judge with a potential conflict of interest, has led to worse care, higher prices, and a mounting human toll.
The Health Care Crisis Is The Democracy Crisis
What it will take for Americans to finally demand change?
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Big Grocery’s Merger Diet
Two huge grocery chains can’t merge, a junk-fee loophole gets plugged, crypto fraud goes to trial, and the Supreme Court has a big day off.