Michael Hiltzik
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author. Read my new book Big Science and my blog at https://t.co/XfRAFQVUlJ [email protected]
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Column: Right-wingers again demonize the tiny delta smelt to protect Big Agriculture
The right-wing campaign to demonize the tiny delta smelt so Big Ag can get more water continues, ignorantly
Column: SoCal Gas accused of setting up an ‘astro-turf’ group to plead its case to regulators
Environmentalists allege that SoCal Gas funded an astro-turf group to make its case to the California PUC.
Column: Can labor unions lift themselves off the floor? A new book asks the question
Union membership has been declining for decades. Can labor unions be revived? The answer is yes... if.
Column: Health insurance companies are useless. Get rid of them
Private health insurers contribute nothing to healthcare except costs. It's time to throw them out.
Column: Just before a shooter killed 20 in El Paso, the NRA celebrated looser Texas gun laws
The NRA bragged about loosening Texas gun laws. 45 days later, El Paso happened.
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Column: Just before a shooter killed 20 in El Paso, the NRA celebrated looser Texas gun laws
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Column: How the hospital lobby derailed legislation to protect you from surprise hospital bills
California hospitals killed a measure aimed at protecting patients from surprise hospital bills
Column: Trump's plan to throw 3 million people off food stamps shows his cruelty to the poor
After shoveling billions in tax breaks to the rich, Trump wants to take food stamps from 3 million needy people
Column: New data show that failing to expand Medicaid has led to 16,000 unnecessary deaths
States that failed to expand Medicaid under the ACA suffered 16,000 unnecessary deaths
The U.S. Holocaust Museum is wrong to deny that Trump’s racism resembles Nazism
The U.S. Holocaust Museum has sparked a furious debate about the resemblance of Trump's treatment of immigrants and Nazi practice.
In act of brinkmanship, a big publisher cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
Elsevier, the world's largest publishers of academic journals, just stepped up its fight with the University of California by cutting off UC's access.
A gruesome case study points to the hazards of stem cell tourism
In a horrifying cautionary tale, a patient with a spinal cord injury got a stem cell transplant from a Portuguese clinic and developed a life-threatening tum
A strong endorsement of the $15 minimum wage from the Congressional Budget Office
The CBO finds that a $15 minimum wage would give raises to 27 million workers.
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A strong endorsement of the $15 minimum wage from the Congressional Budget Office
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Column: Trump cabinet sabotages its own policies through laziness, incompetence or both
Buried within a recent judicial ruling overturning the Trump administration’s approval of the largely pointless Cadiz water project are a few clues to why Trump’s policymaking is so often blocked in federal court.
Doctors aren’t much better at picking the best medical treatments than laypersons
Undermining the notion that consumers pick better healthcare if they have more information, study finds that doctors make similarly poor choices in treatment.
NCAA threatens California over pay for college athletes — and loses the battle
The NCAA's attempt to browbeat California legislatures shows its era is over.
Judge throws the book at a clinic offering unproven stem cell ‘treatments’
A federal judge effectively orders a Florida stem cell clinic to cease operating without FDA permission.
Trump’s assault on Obamacare was much more damaging than previously thought
New data show that Trump's attack on Obamacare led to a steeper drop in enrollments than previously thought
Legit stem cell experts in uproar over inclusion in film funded by suspect clinics
Legitimate stem cell researchers find themselves lumped in with bogus clinics, and aren't happy
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Legitimate stem cell experts in uproar over their inclusion in film funded by suspect clinics
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Michael Hiltzik, “the people’s business writer,” wins June Sidney
Michael Hiltzik, the business columnist for the Los Angeles Times, wins the June Sidney for an outstanding series of columns about economics in the era of Trump. Published in May 2019, these columns shed light on the various ways the economy is...
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Honored to join @kathrynajoyce, @JaneMayerNYer, and @MiamiHerald among recent winners of the Sidney award: Michael Hiltzik, “the people’s business writer,” wins June Sidney
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Here’s why Congress deserves a pay raise — yes, a raise!
Contrary to a cynical proposal by millionaire Sen. Rick Scott, Congress should be paid more, not less.