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Playing with Players’ Lives: How the NFL Hid a Crisis Killing Athletes

Chris Nowinski: The NFL is an enormous business with more than $11 billion a year in revenue, and the job that they ask people to…

Moderna To Raise Prices Over 400% For Vaccine That Taxpayers Helped Create

Narrated by Zain Rizvi, Research Director at Public Citizen Millions of Americans have benefitted from a revolutionary breakthrough in modern medicine — the so-called Moderna…

How This Billionaire Couple Stole California’s Water Supply

While 40 million Californians suffer through unprecedented drought, one billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system, largely seized in a series…

Schumer Freezes Antitrust Bills After Big Tech Lobbyists Bundled Millions

By Donald Shaw and David Moore, Sludge Several bills to curb the market power of the world's largest tech companies are being stalled to death…

Pilots At The Four Largest U.S. Airlines Are Leading An Uprising

[PA Sound] Denis Tajer: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. The first officer and I are on day five and we just came off…

Howard Schultz’s Own Foundation Decries Starbucks’ Treatment of Its Workers

By Ginny Keenan Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s foundation has released a report that rates Starbucks as one of the worst large employers in the country…

Everyone Should Be Very Skeptical of the Supposed Benefits of the Kroger-Albertsons Merger

If more consumers buy more of our products, consumers will be better off.  That’s one of the arguments that grocery giant Kroger is making to…

Excessive Overtime Is Killing UPS Workers

UPS drivers are revealing the gruesome reality behind your online orders. They say the company is forcing 12+ hour days and constant overtime. UPS's scheduling…

Revealed: I’m The Guy Behind The Viral ‘Insulin Is Free’ Tweet

Hey, my name’s Sean and this is how I accidentally made national news with $8, 9 words, and 10 minutes. [News clip]: Perhaps the most…

Why Food Prices Could Skyrocket Thanks to This Grocery Merger

Written and narrated by Errol Schweizer, former VP of Whole Foods, and Benjamin Lorr, author of The Secret Life of Groceries If you walk into…

Peter Thiel: The Billionaire Buying the End of Democracy

We all live in Peter Thiel's world. From business to technology to politics, he’s used his massive wealth to shape society and control your life.…

Albertsons Risks Toys “R” Us-Style Collapse From Private Equity Payout, Data Show

Three weeks after Kroger upended America’s grocery market by announcing it intended to purchase Albertsons, I talked to a man whose job is facilitating these…