'The more we exist online, the more privacy and autonomy we lose'
Jean Guerrero in the Los Angeles Times
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'Obamacare and Bidencare are unsustainable'
Washington Examiner editorial board
"The costs of Obamacare and its Biden-era add-ons are becoming intolerable," says the Washington Examiner editorial board. Democrats promised their health care reform would give more people access to medical insurance and "control costs." But premiums keep rising and ballooning medical bills are becoming a bigger burden on the economy. "The massive costs to taxpayers also keep growing." Lawmakers have to replace unsustainable Obamacare and Bidencare "government control and subsidies" with "market incentives."
'The far-right's anti-reading pressure campaign'
Amanda Marcotte in Salon
Targeting the Scholastic Book Fair has exposed the lie in the right's "ludicrous claims that book banning is about 'parents' rights,'" says Amanda Marcotte in Salon. Facing "the book banning frenzy unleashed" by right-wing groups like Moms for Liberty, Scholastic has "shunted books featuring characters who aren't straight or white" into a separate category — Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice — so red-state schools can exclude them. This prevents parents from buying their kids books the far-right doesn't like.
'Amazon's rivals aren't dwindling'
Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe
"Amazon isn't a monopoly," says Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe. The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general are suing the online retail giant, accusing it of using its dominance to stifle competition. Amazon's 38% e-commerce market share is "nothing to sneeze at, but a monopoly?" Walmart's online business is growing. Shopify is growing. When competition is intensifying like that, a market "is not being crushed by a predatory monopolist."
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6 homes for entertainingFeature Featuring a heated greenhouse in Pennsylvania and a glamorous oasis in California
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Obesity drugs: Will Trump’s plan lower costs?Feature Even $149 a month, the advertised price for a starting dose of a still-in-development GLP-1 pill on TrumpRx, will be too big a burden for the many Americans ‘struggling to afford groceries’
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The ‘Kavanaugh stop’Feature Activists say a Supreme Court ruling has given federal agents a green light to racially profile Latinos
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‘We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore’instant opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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‘Officials say exporters pay the tariffs, but consumers see the opposite’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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‘The business ultimately has a customer base to answer to’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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A free speech debate is raging over sign language at the White HouseTalking Points The administration has been accused of excluding deaf Americans from press briefings
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‘We’re all working for the algorithm now’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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‘America today isn’t just looking to overcome’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Obamacare: Why premiums are rocketingFeature The rise is largely due to the Dec. 31 expiration of pandemic-era ‘enhanced’ premium subsidies, which are at the heart of the government shutdown
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Gregory Bovino: the officer leading Trump’s strong-arm immigration tacticsIn the Spotlight He has been referred to as the Border Patrol’s ‘commander-at-large’
