Author: Brooke Shuman

Private equity is swallowing up America's emergency rooms. 1 in 4 ERs are now staffed by private equity-based firms. The waits are longer, the bills…

In the last year, there were over 500 near-miss collisions by major commercial airlines. We talked to air traffic controllers to understand what's going on.…

A few decades ago, the federal government introduced a misguided, market-based system to conserve our oceans. Now, thousands of small fishermen are going out of…

Truckers used to make $110,000 per year on average. Now many are homeless. So what happened? We dug into it as part of our new…

The real power behind the U.S. Supreme Court isn’t Chief Justice John Roberts. It’s a man who has never been elected or appointed, who most…

Ronald Reagan learned his disastrous "trickle down" economics from a man named Milton Friedman. We're still suffering the consequences today. In 1980, the economist Friedman…

Hosted by F.D. Signifier [News Clips]: Perhaps the most influential and imitated, not to mention the most controversial corporate CEO of the last half century—…

Hosted by Ethan is Online Host: Remember around the holidays when thousands of Southwest flights were canceled and customers were sleeping(00:46) in airports and (00:12)…

Narrated by Second Thought Zachary D. Carter:  I think it's pretty clear, the regulated banks didn't fail. The deregulated bank just did. It is as…

Narrated by Beau of the Fifth Column for the Classroom Coy Young: The bank’s breathing down your neck, they want their money and you know.…

Narrated by Jessica Burbank Latino voters in South Texas say that while they align with Democrats on social issues, they feel increasingly alienated from the…