A New Car vs. Health Insurance? Average Family Job-Based Coverage Hits $27K
KFF data shows that 2025 marked the first time in two decades that the annual cost of covering a family of four rose by 6% or more for three consecutive years.
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OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats − Here’s Why That Matters
What happens when surveillance pricing meets the AI hype?
Read more...FEMA Buyouts vs. Risky Real Estate: New Maps Reveal Post-flood Migration Patterns Across the US
Selling may be good for homeowners who can find buyers, but it doesn’t make the community more resilient.
Read more...How a Bush-Era ‘Green’ Solution Made Climate Change Worse
Journalist Michael Grunwald digs into uncomfortable truths about food and agriculture in his new book, ‘We Are Eating the Earth.’
Read more...Economic Myths: Homo Economicus
Richard Murphy is starting to take part bad economic idea. This series may wind up having no ending.
Read more...What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
Read more...U.S. Military Leaders Plan to Use the Killing of Charlie Kirk to Boost Recruitment. Will It Work?
The armed forces face much bigger problems than can be solved by a useful martyr and a catchy slogan.
Read more...Banks Can’t Survive Climate Change
Richard Murphy argues a massive banking collapse is coming — and the cause isn’t speculation this time. It’s climate change.
Read more...Is Europe Preparing for War Against Russia or Against Own Populations?
Population control toys aren’t all that useful on the Eurasian Steppe.
Read more...Social Murder as a Necropolitical Governance Technology
What is social murder, why is it increasing, and how to fight it.
Read more...Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?
RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
Read more...What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?
As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?
Read more...Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay
How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.
Read more...AI, Antitrust & Privacy: When More Competition Makes Things Worse
Increased AI competition worsens surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation—threatening privacy, autonomy, and democracy.
Read more...Cow Most Sacred
Why military spending remains untouchable.
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