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My Migraine Meds Cost $40,000 a Year, And We've Known About This Drug for Millennia
I wondered how a raw substance with an import price of around $0.97 per mg could manage an 11,600% markup.
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Alabama to stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties with 75% black registered voters
The state of Alabama, which requires a photo ID to vote, announced this week that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties where 75 percent of registered voters are black.
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10 Ways Monopoly Airlines Use 'Calculated Misery' to Make Flying an Increasingly Overpriced Nightmare
In other words, customer dissatisfaction pays off big for airlines. The industry figured out that if it only made flying a nightmarish experience for the average traveller – one in which things like food and comfort come a la carte and at additional cost – customers would pay extra for even the most basic services. Airlines get to pretend that they’re offering customer choice, and passengers are duped into believing they’re spending more for premium service.
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Why We Must End Upward Pre-Distributions To The Rich
You often hear inequality has widened because globalization and technological change have made most people less competitive, while making the best educated more competitive. There’s some truth to this. The tasks most people used to do can now be done more cheaply by lower-paid workers abroad or by computer-driven machines.
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Shuttering the government actually costs more than keeping it open — more than $2 billion last time
Budget hawks in Congress may stand their ground on wasteful spending, but shutting down the government is no example of fiscal frugality.
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Dewey, Cheatem & Howe
There are, it turns out, people in the corporate world who will do whatever it takes, including fraud that kills people, in order to make a buck. And we need effective regulation to police that kind of bad behavior, not least so that ethical businesspeople aren’t at a disadvantage when competing with less scrupulous types. But we knew that, right?
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A Desperate Scott Walker Brings Anti-Labor Crusade to National Stage
Trying to woo big donors, the Wisconsin governor tries to bring his war on organized labor to the federal level.
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National Review Writer Accidentally Gives The Game Away On Voter Suppression
What’s more, the bills that have been drafted are bad legislation. For example, they contain much that has nothing to do with the Supreme Court’s decision, and they themselves violate the Constitution by prohibiting practices that are not actually racially discriminatory but only have racially disproportionate effects.
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How much does welfare for 1 percenters cost?
Welfare-shaming immigrants is the new hotness in conservative policy circles. For instance, the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies recently released two studies finding that about half of immigrant households, both legal and unauthorized, use means-tested government benefits like food stamps and Medicaid, while only 30 percent of native-born people do.
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Why You Need to Understand Evangelical Christianity's Outrageous and Influential Far-Right Fringe
Is Christian Reconstruction so fringed out it is not worthy of attention? Not according to Julie J. Ingersoll, author of the new book, Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2015), who posits that Reconstructionists' "biblical worldview" plays a highly influential role, although subtle and often hidden, in contemporary right-wing politics.
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Cornel West on the ‘shameless silence’ of progressives about Obama and education reform
"Public education is predicated on the notion you are focused on other kids -- you have to be concerned about all children... Not any longer — all this privatizing profit obsession, this preoccupation with this short-term gain as opposed to long-term integrity, is being pushed to the side."
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Tequila, Painted Pearls, and Prada: How the CIA Helped Produce ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Documents obtained exclusively by VICE News detail how closely CIA officers worked with filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal as they made their movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. By Jason Leopold and Ky Henderson.
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The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You
The real history of today's excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Goldman Sachs Beats Another Fraud Rap: Can the Public Ever Get Justice in New York Courts?
Yesterday, in a stunning decision packed with Orwellian reverse speak, Judge Victor Marrero of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York... By Pam Martens and Russ Martens.
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H&R Block lobbied to make tax forms even harder for poor people to fill out
Tax preparers stand to benefit from the change the company promoted. By Hannah Levintova.
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The City’s stranglehold makes Britain look like an oh-so-civilised mafia state
Dodgy donations, misselling, trading scandals, tax evasion: wherever you sniff, something stinks. By George Monbiot.
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United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek quits amid corruption probe
The chief executive and chairman of the board of United Airlines, Jeff Smisek, has quit amid a corruption investigation. Two other executives of the US's third largest airline also resigned. According to US media reports, federal authorities are investigating whether Mr Smisek sanctioned a money-losing flight to benefit the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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Five Bizarre Ways Kim Davis' Supporters Have Defended Her Lawbreaking
Religious Right activists roundly claimed that they were shocked and stunned that a federal judge held Kim Davis in contempt of court, even though the decision was inevitable as Davis had continued to break the law even after the Supreme Court rejected her appeal. This left many wondering how anyone could be surprised... By Brian Tashman.
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Texas Is Two-Stepping All Over Voting Rights
It says it can make voting as difficult as it wants to, and any law that says otherwise is unconstitutional. By Richard L. Hasen.
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Coal Companies Are Dying While Their Execs Grab More Cash
You might think that the leaders of coal companies would be made to pay the price for industry failures. But in the perverse world of American corporate compensation, they are, in fact, getting a raise.
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