It is no anomaly that the industry would reject a proposal patent restrictions for Covid-19 vaccines—pharmaceutical companies had a big hand in shaping those rules in the first place, to protect pharmaceutical monopolies and their profits.
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There is no longer any question: These Big Oil companies knew and lied about their product's role in the climate crisis, they continue to deceive, and they must be held accountable.
The grand total of Big Pharma cash going to these four lawmakers: over $2 million. When you consider the billions that Big Pharma will rake in for keeping drug prices high, this is a small potatoes for them. You might even call it a great investment.
Kyrsten Sinema has raised more campaign money in the last three months than in any quarter since she became a senator. Per Bill Madden, "This is what someone who's bought and paid for looks like."
“Millions of Americans depend on the mail every day,” said Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. "One political appointee does not get to decide the fate of the Postal Service."
The Pandora Papers being called the "biggest-ever leak of offshore data," a cache of nearly 12 million documents published Sunday laid bare the hidden wealth, secret dealings, and corruption of hundreds of world leaders, billionaires, public officials, celebrities, and others.
Defenders of the U.S. Postal Service are urgently renewing their calls for the ouster of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy as his 10-year plan to overhaul the cherished government institution is set to take effect Friday, ushering in permanently slower mail delivery while hiking prices for consumers.
Senate Democrats must finally exercise their power and act on the fact that the solution is to blow up the filibuster, just as Mitch McConnell blew it up to pack the Supreme Court for his big donors.
"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" asked Sen. Bernie Sanders.
A new analysis shows that a "large portion" of Pentagon "war on terror" contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
Since calling out fascism after it succeeds would be like finally agreeing to be vaccinated while they’re hooking you up to a ventilator, ideally more voices will join this candid cadre to make it part of the 2022 election conversation.
Underscoring the for-profit healthcare industry's tireless efforts to avoid any reduction in its bottom line—no matter the cost to the American public—lobbyists for health insurers and dentists are ramping up pressure on lawmakers to leave comprehensive Medicare coverage out of the $3.5 trillion spending plan now making its way through Congress.
Sunday would have been the 80th birthday of Emmett Till, who at 14 was kidnapped, whipped, mutilated and murdered by white supremacist thugs in Mississippi in an act so savage it helped spark the civil rights movement.
As Texas state Democratic lawmakers on Monday undertook a daring effort to deny their Republican colleagues the quorum needed to ram through a sweeping voter suppression package, progressive advocates and observers implored congressional Democrats to act boldly to protect U.S. democracy from the GOP onslaught.
While ExxonMobil’s decades of sowing public doubt about climate science and the impact of fossil fuels have provoked various lawsuits, secretly recorded videos released Wednesday expose how the company continues to fight against U.S. efforts to tackle the climate emergency.
Darnella Frazier, the Minnesota teen whose cellphone video recording of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck last May was key piece of prosecution evidence in the trial the ended with the former Minneapolis police officer's murder conviction, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Friday.