Economy / Business - OtherWords

The Lie of Health Care ‘Choice’

In our corporate-run health system, consumer “choices” are shaped entirely by profit-seeking monopolists.

Trump wants to cancel student loan forgiveness for public servants. But what if you’ve already taken the loans?

Moderates consistently warn that progressive ideas can’t win “the middle.” But just look at the polls.

Americans were taught to associate “socialism” with dictatorship and “capitalism” with democracy. Are those days over?

Credit card companies fleece retailers to give high-end spenders cash back — a system the rest of us end up subsidizing.

If they can “give back” so much, it’s probably because they’ve been taking too much.

Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of suburbia and back to its roots?

You might have missed it amid the impeachment coverage, but the president is reintroducing catastrophic Reagan-era disability cuts.

I know firsthand that the idealistic view of entrepreneurship is not the reality that most of us experience.

The prospect of a 2 percent tax on wealth over $50 million has rich Americans considering expatriating.