Money moves through this country the way blood moves through a body — and the question is always the same one: who feeds it, and who bleeds for it.
For six weeks, The Quiet Dismantling followed the machinery — the quiet, technical, deliberately boring ways the infrastructure of women's health is being pulled apart. The Economic Body is about the cost.
We follow the money into the destruction of the Black middle class, the ACA subsidy cliff, housing, the cost of childcare, and the violence a woman cannot afford to leave — because maternal health is the canary: the earliest, most honest reading we have of a whole population's health.
Each week, across three registers: a Signal, a Briefing, and a Viva Voce.
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