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interesting times May 10, 2019

Andrew Sullivan: Who Should Be Allowed to Compete in Women’s Sports?The debate is legitimate and important. But some of the arguments being made in major publications are patently false.

By Andrew Sullivan
innovation Sept. 7, 2018

OxyContin Billionaire Patents New Drug for Opioid TreatmentRichard Sackler made billions convincing Americans that OxyContin wasn’t addictive. Now, he’s going to make millions selling them addiction treatment.

By Eric Levitz
June 1, 2017

Tom Price Bought Pharma Stocks — Then Lobbied for the Industry in AustraliaThe Health secretary’s blatant corruption grows even more blatant.

By Eric Levitz
Jan. 31, 2017

Trump Meets Big-Pharma CEOs, Then Seems to Flip-flop on Negotiating Drug PricesOn the campaign trail he mocked the lobbyists. Today he sounded like one.

By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 12, 2017

Why Cory Booker’s Midnight Vote on Drug Importation Is Getting So Much AttentionTo the alarm of progressives, he is apparently bending to the interests of wealthy donors even as he is rising to Democratic stardom.

By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 11, 2017

Trump Tanks Pharma Stocks With Sudden Threat to Fight High Drug PricesIn his first press conference, he revived a nearly forgotten plan to authorize government negotiations on pharmaceutical prices.

By Ed Kilgore