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Rick Bright, deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response for Health and Human Services (HHS), speaks during a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 8, 2018. The committee is looking for answers on how to improve preparedness during this year's particularly severe flu season and the effectiveness of vaccines. Photographer: Toya Jordan Sarno/Bloomberg

The Coronavirus Crisis

Federal Whistleblower Office Asks HHS to Stay Removal of Rick Bright, Who Warned of Mask Shortage

Sharon Lerner, Robert Mackey

- May. 8, 2020

A federal agency that investigates whistleblower complaints found “reasonable grounds” to conclude that Dr. Rick Bright was the subject of retaliation.

Brazil’s Latest Outbreak of Drug Gang Violence Highlights the Real Culprit: the War on Drugs

Glenn Greenwald, David Miranda

- Sep. 26, 2017

The only way to stop drug violence and other drug-related pathologies is by ending drug criminalization.

Substance abuse, cannabis, Brazil. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Do Adults Have a Privacy Right to Use Drugs? Brazil’s Supreme Court Decides

Glenn Greenwald

- Sep. 10, 2015

“The idea is that drug usage, if there is a harm, is only self-injury, only harms the individual and thus cannot be the object of state punishment.”

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