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Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

The U.S. was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. Many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about ethics or ecology and love the bomb.

In an interview, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain argues that the era of “free-trade” deals like NAFTA has been a disaster for the US working class and that smart tariffs can help bring back good auto jobs.

Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.

Medicare Advantage – the commercial alternative to traditional Medicare – is drawing down federal health care funds, costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of US$83 billion a year.

For-profit hospitals jacking up prices matches a similar story of predatory corporate practices on grocery costs and housing prices. It's not market supply and demand. Corporate giants have figured out how to rip people off more effectively.

Righting Old Wrongs. How science is shedding a colonial legacy.

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Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with and departed from the previous half century’s policies favoring “free trade.”