Economics Trump’s Budget Represents His Administration’s Plan for Solving America’s Economic Ills And, as it turns out, many economists don't love the administration's apparent investment priorities. Dwyer Gunn
Economics What Would Your Marketplace Health Insurance Cost Under the American Health Care Act? Take our quiz for an estimate of your marketplace premium. Francie Diep
Economics Should the Government Seize Corporate Stock? Making the government a shareholder in for-profit companies could actually boost those companies' productivity. Rick Paulas
Economics The New CBO Score Shows the AHCA Hasn’t Changed Much The new CBO report isn't likely to provide much comfort to anyone concerned about how people with pre-existing conditions would fare under the AHCA. Dwyer Gunn
Economics Environment In Nepal, Publicly Burning Confiscated Items Is a Warning to the Illegal Wildlife Trade The stockpile included parts from 48 species, including 67 tiger skins, 357 rhino horns, and two sacks of pangolin scales. Shreya Dasgupta
Economics America’s Private-Prison Industry Has Always Been All Right President Donald Trump has restored consumer confidence in private prisons—but they were never in danger of failing to begin with. Rick Paulas
Economics California Is Investigating Racial Discrimination in Auto Insurance Premiums The state's insurance department is following up on our findings that eight auto insurers charge more in minority neighborhoods than in other neighborhoods with similar risk. Julia Angwin
Economics Understanding India’s Case for Colonial Reparations Do egregious events from world history—specifically colonialism—warrant some sort of official reparations and, if so, what would these look like? Adam B. Lerner
Economics Uber to Pay Back Tens of Thousands of Drivers in New York City Due to a system error, Uber's ride commission was coming out of gross fare, costing workers extra. Nick Hagar
Economics This Chart Illustrates the AHCA’s High-Risk Funding Problem Researchers have figured out what it would cost to fund high-risk pools. As it turns out, the $128 billion included in the AHCA is not nearly enough. Dwyer Gunn