Money Over People

A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality, with the potential to save millions of lives. But its development slowed after its corporate owner focused on more profitable vaccines.

When the government loaned automakers more than $81 billion as a bailout, they turned to Wall Street to gain more financial expertise. Thus the financial foxes were hired to overhaul the hen house.

For today’s bought-off GOP (and a handful of bought-off “problem solver” Democrats), as long as Republicans on the Supreme Court keep the corrupt payola machine running, there simply is no bottom.

A new report reveals how stock buybacks have inflated CEO paychecks and widened pay gaps at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.

Nobody in America should be without a home, and for society to work, housing costs must track incomes in a way that makes housing both available and affordable.

Universal healthcare is not that complicated. But the people who promote its perceived complexity are the same ones who are creating that complexity—for their own benefit.

For decades, politicians promised to give Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. President Biden is finally making it happen. This is the biggest defeat Big Pharma has ever suffered—and it won’t be the last.

Scores of drugs, many with limited benefit, cost more than $50,000 a year. Some drugs, mostly used to treat rare diseases, cost over $700,000 annually—in the United States.

Another healthcare con job: A powerful lobbyist convinced a federal agency that doctors can be forced to pay fees on money that health insurers owe them.

The world that President Eisenhower warned us about has materialized. The arms industry has too many members of Congress in its pockets.

Slavery was a form of mass commerce. It made select white families so wealthy and powerful that their surnames still form a sort of social aristocracy in places like Charleston.

A Senate committee chaired by Bernie Sanders released a report revealing how Big Pharma is "ripping off" Americans with medical treatments that publicly funded experts helped create.

Fox News brought on a contributor with a history of downplaying the dangers of secondhand smoke and dismissing climate science to tell viewers that particulate matter is "innocuous."

Documents reveal clear evidence that the chemical industry knew about the dangers of PFAS and failed to let the public, regulators, and even their own employees know the risks.

The CDC calls the 644 mostly Southern counties where rates of the disease are high the “Diabetes Belt.” And of those counties, more than half have high levels of medical debt.

American families are paying far too much for prescription drugs, in large part due to Big Pharma's rampant corporate lawlessness.