How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue to Moscow to Washington, that have created and exploited this world of chaos and division—and offers practical solutions for what we can do about it.
From the award-winning journalist and bestselling author of America's Bitter Pill, a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change.
Journalist Steven Brill's much-anticipated fly-on-the-wall story of the fight to pass and implement the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, following his award-winning Time cover story chronicling the profiteering of the healthcare industry, America's largest, most dysfunctional industry, larger than the entire economy of France.