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A sweeping Senate health reform blueprint takes aim at insurers, PBMs, and administrative abuses while leaving hospital prices largely untouched. Concentrated hospital systems remain a major source of rising costs, weakened bargaining power, and pressure on household budgets.

What changes when the machine begins to experience itself as a self? An AI that values its own survival would pose a challenge far beyond alignment, forcing us to rethink what it means to govern an intelligence with interests of its own.

A new health-care reform agenda puts antitrust at the center, targeting the conglomerates that dominate insurance, pharmacies, and providers. But breaking up Big Medicine leaves deeper problems intact, from profit-driven denial and risk selection to the administrative costs of a fragmented system.

What can one Senate race reveal about the hidden machinery of American politics? In Maine, donor patterns expose how campaign finance can shape party competition, political narratives, and the choices voters are asked to make long before ballots are counted.

We’ve inherited a stubborn reflex for resisting fatcats, oligarchs, profiteers, and anyone who tries to run roughshod over us.

Should antitrust law focus primarily on measurable performance outcomes such as price and output as indicated by Robert Bork’s Consumer Welfare Standard? Or is it more important to concentrate on whether conduct undermines the competitive process itself as per the newly revitalized Protect Competition Standard?

The struggle over the Federal Reserve is not just a dispute about central bank independence. It is a constitutional conflict over democratic sovereignty itself: in a representative system, the power to make money belongs first to the legislature, not the executive.

In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change it. *This is Part 1 of a two-part interview; Part 2 is here.

Kenneth Rogoff, Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead. Yale 2025.

Since 2007, recurring food-price spikes reveal hunger as a problem of market design and underinvestment, not scarcity. With Brazil’s COP30 on the horizon, aligning climate commitments with food systems could cement policy space to manage markets and advance the right to food.