Microsoft’s new $999 laptop is a great rival to Apple’s MacBook, with one big tradeoff (MSFT, AAPL)

A couple of days from now on June 15th, Microsoft will officially release the Surface Laptop, a compact rival to the core Apple MacBook that will start at $ 999. Microsoft is pitching the Surface Laptop as the perfect laptop for students: thin, light, and sporting a battery that Microsoft says will last for 14.5 hours […]

The AHCA’s Tradeoff: Gutting Care for the Poor to Get Tax Cuts for the Rich

If the terminology of Republican Medicaid policy—“per-capita caps,” “block grants,” “inflation targets”—seems a bit arcane, Monday’s release of the Congressional Budget Office’s report on the GOP’s repeal-and-replace bill makes it pretty simple: The current health-care proposal is about rationing care to fund tax cuts for the U.S.’s highest earners. In the past, accusations of care-rationing […]