Why panic when you could just use existing laws?

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

What Comes after the neoliberal order.

Lina Khan and Doha Mekki on three court rulings that illustrate the power juries and local officials have to enforce antitrust laws.

The share of American income going to labor is at its lowest level since measurements began.

Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.

The high cost of health care in America is suppressing wages, driving job losses and fueling inequality.

AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.

Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.

For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...

Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients. The spillover effects of its presence on the midterm-election ballot should be considerable.

Forty-five thousand workers at Kaiser Permanente—ranging from nurses to therapists to pharmacists—are on strike in the country’s largest labor action of 2025.

The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.

For the last 20 years, analysts have known that this is an economy by and for the rich.

Equity stakes, loophole closures, and protecting domestic industries might make sense in someone else’s hands. Not from a president with no strategy or plan.

A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.

Many have warned that allowing D.C. to remain a disenfranchised colony would lead to disaster. They were right.

The only two sectors thriving in Trump’s economy are increasingly sparring with each other.

With a few notable exceptions, Democrats keep getting education wrong

It’s the return of rotten boroughs, railroad barons, and constant graft.

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

The administration is working hard to eliminate taxes and regulations on Silicon Valley firms—even in other countries.

Some enrollees could be hit with increases of more than 20% because of federal changes and higher health expenses.

Incompetent and militarized ‘emergency response’ is on track to be a trillion-dollar industry by the end of Trump’s second term.

We will regret not standing up to this venomous cruelty.

To understand the impact of Medicaid work requirements included in the budget reconciliation bill being debated in Congress, KFF has undertaken two different analyses using different data sources. Usi...

Homelessness is increasingly caused by soaring rents and low wages, not laziness or personal failures. The solution is strong government intervention to house everyone and to end landlords’ control ov...

The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.

Judges and administrative procedures make it hard to make it easy to cancel subscriptions.

Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

Enforcers are waving through bad mergers and weaponizing others to reach ideological ends.

The Supreme Court rules against health care access for trans youth. Don’t count on other sex-based rulings to stand either.

Experts warn of potentially hundreds of hospital closures, which would degrade the entire medical system.

We may already be entering a new dark age.

Studies show that when Medicaid work requirements were tried, they failed to increase employment.

The Loan Programs Office is one of the most successful government agencies in history—or it was until Elon Musk arrived.

The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. We made a timeline to show you what happened.

The goal is to save money on higher-education assistance to pay for tax cuts for the rich.