Why does America spend the most on healthcare while producing mediocre outcomes? Explore how administrative bureaucracy, competing insurers, lobbying, and political incentives consume hundreds of billions of dollars before care ever reaches the patient.
The United States is among the world's wealthiest nations, but does wealth alone make a country exceptional? This essay examines how America's performance in healthcare, public safety, and quality of life compares with other developed democracies.
Political corruption did not begin with Donald Trump. From Alexander Hamilton's financial machine to today's pay-to-play politics, America's oldest battle has always been over whether government serves the republic or the privileged.
America condemns socialism while embracing Social Security, Medicare, public schools, and corporate subsidies. Maybe we're arguing about the wrong thing.
From Louisiana's literacy tests to the SAVE Act, this essay examines how neutral-looking paperwork can reshape who gets to participate in American democracy.
Republican lawmakers demand Canada "manage" nearly a billion acres of forest while dismissing the climate science driving increasingly destructive wildfires.
The promise was better deals. The result was higher prices, taxpayer bailouts, war, and agreements that largely returned to where America started.
Mike Johnson has never been convicted of a crime. This essay asks whether legality alone is an adequate measure of public character.
A senator suffers a cardiac emergency. Three days later, his wife meets China's vice president in Beijing. The unanswered questions begin there.
A failed reflecting pool, a fabricated conspiracy, and a government that cannot admit error, this is how power replaces reality.