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Blame US Trade Policy for Sky-High Drug Prices

Skyrocketing drug prices were a major issue in the 2016 US presidential campaign, and the Trump administration has since announced measures to bring them down. Why, then, is the administration also pushing for intellectual-property rules that give pharmaceutical giants even more price-gouging power?
Jayati Ghosh ·
It is ironic (but not surprising) that an administration claiming to fight for lower drug prices for Americans is actively pushing for rule changes that would grant even more price-gouging power to pharmaceutical multinationals. (Photo: Gladkikh/Getty Images)
Arid soils

Citing $69 Trillion Price Tag by 2100, Moody's Warns Central Banks of Far-Reaching Economic Damage of Climate Crisis

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

Why Do You Lie So Much?—and Eight Other Questions NBC's Chuck Todd Should Have Asked Trump

Robert Freeman ·

Jordan Peele’s deep fake version of Barack Obama, produced by BuzzFeed. (Photo: Screenshot)

Could 'Deepfakes' Help Swing the 2020 Election?

John Feffer ·

Plastic pollution on a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 3, 2018.

Plastic Is Just as Destructive to the Climate as Oil and Gas

Sonali Kolhatkar ·

The current estimate of plastics in our oceans is approximately 150 million metric tons. (Photo: Laura Lezza/Getty Images)

Dangerous Plastics Are a Threat to Us and Future Generations

Why a legally binding treaty cannot be postponed

Meena Miriam Yust ·

The institutions of democracy and sovereignty exist in tension with another powerful institution: the global market and its free trade regimes. (Photo: StopFastTrack / Flickr)

Why Free Trade Is Bad for You (or Most of You at Any Rate)

Free trade is simply a euphemism for the corporate capture of international trade

Walden Bello ·

U.S. Ambassador David Friedman

In Latest Assault on Palestinian Rights, US Shutters Jerusalem Consulate

Critics say so-called merger "is nothing more than a smokescreen trying to camouflage what is essentially an opening of American embassy in Jerusalem"

Andrea Germanos, staff writer ·

Behind the scenes, however, most senior military and foreign policy officials in Washington view China, not Russia, as the country’s principal adversary. (Photo: Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images)

A Long War of Attrition With China

The only way to save civilization is for the U.S. and China to declare peace and focus together on human salvation

Michael T. Klare ·

The March to End Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women: A Pandemic No Longer Hidden

Worldwide, violence is as common a cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age as cancer

César Chelala ·

“It’s not palm oil itself that’s the problem,” she said. “It’s the way it’s produced.”(Photo: Migin/Getty)

We Need to Talk About Palm Oil

Our insatiable demand is wreaking havoc on the planet—and our climate

Dominique Mosbergen ·

free the families

On World Children's Day, Amnesty Calls Out Trump for 'Abhorrent' Detention of Refugee Kids and Families

"The United States has failed to protect children's rights, refusing to do what is best for children while it continues to pursue cruel policies of hate and demonization."

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·

The Americans, the Saudis, and the Israelis: Assassins Without Borders

Saudi Arabia's apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea — or Israel and the United States.

John Feffer ·

Jair Bolsonaro has criticized monsters such as Chile’s Pinochet and Peru’s Fujimori – for not slaughtering more domestic opponents.(Photo: Fabio Teixeira/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Why Is the Radical Right Still Winning?

What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements — and the order they seek to replace

John Feffer ·

UN Globe pride

'Needlessly Cruel and Bigoted': New Trump Policy Denies Visas to Diplomats' Same-Sex Partners—Even If They Can't Marry in Home Countries

Those who currently live in the U.S. must now marry by the end of the year or face deportation

Jessica Corbett, staff writer ·