By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News / ProPublica Co-published with Anchorage Daily News. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to get their stories in your inbox every week. On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Expensive Gifts: Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or
Trade agreements used to be negotiated once and left alone for a decade. That era is over. In the past eighteen months, the United States has renegotiated terms with several major partners, layered new tariff schedules on top of existing frameworks, and used trade policy as an active lever in
When a crisis hits — a natural disaster, a refugee surge, a public health emergency — the world still turns first to a familiar set of institutions: the United Nations, the World Health Organization, regional development banks, and a patchwork of NGOs built to move fast when governments can’t. Increasingly,
Global trade in 2026 looks less like a steady river and more like a series of locks opening and closing on short notice. Since the administration’s latest round of tariff actions took effect, importers, exporters, and freight planners have been rerouting cargo, renegotiating contracts, and rebuilding supply chains that took
Cryptocurrency has spent the past year shedding its outsider status. Spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds now sit inside mainstream retirement portfolios, several large banks offer institutional custody for digital assets, and the federal government’s own posture toward crypto has shifted from wary tolerance to active promotion — most visibly
by Daniel Yue, Assistant Professor of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Yiyang Zeng, Postdoctoral Fellow of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Yue, Georgia Institute of Technology and Yiyang Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology The fierce backlash against data centers shows no sign of easing up. Since early 2024,
By Rachel Spears, KFF Health News For the second year in a row, many Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing double-digit premium increases, driven by rising medical costs as well as policy changes by Congress and the Trump administration. In preliminary filings with state regulators, insurers are seeking a median
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Most Americans don’t look to their 401(k) plans for excitement or experimentation, instead relying on the promise that steady saving and sober planning will guarantee security in their golden years. But the Trump administration wants to transform the well-worn
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