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The Major League Monopoly on Small Ball

This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever‘s free newsletter. It’s a late August afternoon in Portland, Maine, and the...
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America’s Thousand Percent Prescription Drug Tariff

Readers are undoubtedly confused by the reference to 1000 percent tariffs on prescription drugs. We don’t call our...
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Neoliberals Are Wrong About Bidenomics

It is by now a familiar story. With the status quo in tatters following the worst financial crisis...
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The Steel Industry Merger That Has Environmentalists Worried

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.U.S. Steel, once the world’s largest company...
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Shein Embraces AI, Sending Its Emissions Through the Roof

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein...

How Opioids Corrupted Organized Medicine

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Editor’s note: The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days.Many businesses will gleefully sell you a harmful addiction.The tobacco industry...

The Low-Wage Corporations That Wasted Half a Trillion Dollars on CEO Pay

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The Lowe’s home improvement store spent $43 billion on stock buybacks over the past five years. With that sum, the big box chain could’ve...

The Corporate Bully Taking Your Kid’s Lunch Money

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This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter.” Last fall, Emily Krieger, a...

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