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Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto Is Stupid

Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto Is Stupid: He’s not alone. The accused gunman in the murder of United Healthcare’s CEO, like a lot of people, wrongly blames insurance companies for America’s declining life expectancy.

by Bill Scher

The Monopolized Economy

Why Big Business May Wind Up Missing Lina Khan 

Why Big Business May Wind Up Missing Lina Khan: Multinationals often opposed Biden’s aggressive stand on antitrust. Trump’s industrial policy by temper tantrum gives corporations what they really hate—instability. 

by Niko Lusiani

November/December 2024 Print Edition

November/December 2024
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The Student Recruitment Industrial Complex

We tend to think about equity in higher education in terms of how colleges treat students who apply. But long before that, a little-known industry called enrollment management decides who gets the glossy brochures and who gets ignored.
by Rob Wolfe

The App Always Wins

Online sports gambling companies use sophisticated and deceptive techniques to exploit problem gamblers. The same technologies could be used to protect the addicted, if government would only demand it.
by Zach Marcus

Modi Operandi

A chronicle of the rise of Indian nationalism offers lessons for defeating our own version.
by Daniel Block

The Tyranny of the Welfare Queen

For decades, the conversation about social services in America has centered on a false and harmful stereotype about who deserves help.
by Anne Kim

Education

Books

He-e-e-e-re’s Johnny!

He dominated late-night television for 30 years, before our shoutfest era. A new biography of the reclusive Nebraskan is also an elegy for a lost America.

by Matthew Cooper

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