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What Billionaires Don’t Want You To Know About AI

There’s a war brewing between a handful of billionaires to seize control of AI. They want you to think their tech will make the world…

“I’m A Doctor: Corporate Greed Is Killing Your ER”

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…

The Evil Company Buying Subway (And The Rest Of Your Favorite Chains)

One private equity firm owns more chains than you can count: Subway, Dunkin’, Sonic, The Cheesecake Factory, Wingstop, Arby's, and more. The firm is called…

Legal Weed Is Being Ruined By Corporate Greed

Weed isn't even federally legal yet, but giant corporations are already ruining it—for consumers, for workers, and everyone, really. Huge corporations like Trulieve and Amazon…

I Used To Make $100K As A Trucker. Now I Make Minimum Wage.

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…

How Milton Friedman Broke The American Economy

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…

What’s Really Behind The Critical Race Theory Panic

America’s schools have become a battleground in a tense culture war, stoked by Republican leaders and the mainstream media. Arizona is a key battleground in…

AR Pioneer: The Metaverse Could Be Far Worse Than Social Media

Major corporations like Meta (formerly Facebook) and Amazon are spending billions to bring the Metaverse to consumers. They envision a world where virtual and augmented reality…

Private Equity Robbed Taylor Swift & Dunkin’ — You’re Next.

Over the last year, More Perfect Union has told the stories of workers, renters, homeowners, and consumers after private equity invades their lives. We covered…

This Small U.S. Town Has Medicare For All

There are over 19,000 towns across the country, but only one town in America has Medicare for All. The story of how they got it…

Inflation Explained: The Real Reason Prices Are Going Up

Inflation is being blamed on workers, government spending, and Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda. The real culprit? Corporate greed. In our second episode of…

Untold History: How America Got (And Lost) Universal Child Care

Today universal child care seems like a radical, unattainable, expensive dream. But America had a child care program—for years—and managed to pay for it during…