Biden Administration Adds Insulin to Drug Price Negotiation List in Major Blow to Big Pharma
“This was an unexpected victory in a long fight against an illegal cartel of three corporations who have raised their insulin prices in lockstep.”
Politics
FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting
China and the U.S. are collecting the same proportion of their populations’ DNA profiles — and the FBI wants to double its budget to get even more.
Voices
How We Forgot the “Jobs” Part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The anti-racism of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech has overshadowed the demands for economic justice at the historic 1963 protest.
Georgia GOP Gears Up to Remove Atlanta Prosecutor Who Indicted Donald Trump
Lawmakers invoked a new law that’s supposed to target reform DAs. The real targets are Black Democrats.
Voices
Abortion Bans or Democracy — You Can’t Have Both
Controlling people’s bodies requires trashing representative government and violating every individual right.
Ron DeSantis’s Next Ideological Coup: “Judicial Gerrymander” in Florida
The governor’s allies took the first steps toward moves that could upend the election of Democratic prosecutors and even judges.
Republicans Pushed Almost 400 “Education Intimidation” Bills in Past Two Years
Lawmakers in all but four states introduced bills that indirectly censor what’s taught in schools, according to a new report from PEN America.
The People vs. Cop City
Atlanta Officials Unveil Onerous Verification Requirements for Cop City Referendum
The city outlined its plans for signature verification after organizers collected 100,000 signatures for a vote on the police training facility.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Hacked Records Corroborate Claims in Hydroxychloroquine Wrongful Death Suit
Jeremy Parker died soon after taking the drug, which was prescribed to him by a physician with the anti-vaccine group America’s Frontline Doctors.
Voices
A Brief History of China’s Global Warming Hoax, From 1863 to Right Now
It all began when Irish physicist John Tyndall proposed in a “false flag” operation that variations in atmospheric composition could cause changes in the climate.