What Is the 'Success Sequence' and Why Do So Many Conservatives Like It?
A common prescription for getting out of poverty ignores the obstacles individual effort can’t always overcome.
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Bettmann / Getty The Problem With Courting Amazon
When cities compete to attract big employers, the country as a whole suffers.
David Ryder / Getty America's Rural Hospitals Are Dangerously Fragile
Consolidation in the health-care industry is threatening small and independent hospitals and the communities they're in.
Brynn Anderson / AP What America Is Losing as Its Small Towns Struggle
To erode small-town culture is to erode the culture of the nation.
John Moore / Getty When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis
Some shareholders of a major drug distributor are arguing that the company's goals should be more in line with society's.
John Moore / Getty When Prisoners Are a 'Revenue Opportunity'
As jails install systems that let inmates videochat with "visitors" no matter where they may be, it’s private companies that appear to have the most to gain.
Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty Privatization Is Changing America's Relationship With Its Physical Stuff
Turning more and more infrastructure projects over to outside companies makes citizens more like customers.
Robert Galbraith / Reuters If Declining Towns 'Deserve to Die,' Where Should Their Residents Go?
Some economists and pundits claim Americans aren’t moving enough, but how people should respond to that is unclear.
Spencer Platt / Getty The Ghost Bosses
Private-equity firms have been rapidly buying and selling off companies for decades, and workers in Lancaster, Ohio, are living with the consequences.
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