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February 1, 2024
Grace Segers
Bernie Sanders Has a Plan to Make Big Pharma’s Greedheads Squirm
The senator spoke to TNR about how he’ll grill the CEOs of three drug manufacturers about their high prices.
March 18, 2022
The New Republic
How Big Pharma Took Over Medicine
A conversation with Alexander Zaitchik, author of “Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine From Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines”
October 5, 2021
Natalie Shure
Big Pharma’s Revolving Door Is Imperiling Democracy
The industry’s titanic profits power a perpetual stranglehold over our government with only one goal in mind: raking you clean of every last dime.
September 16, 2021
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Lyme Vaccine That Got Away
Twenty years ago, you could get a vaccine for Lyme disease. Now you can’t. What happened?
April 12, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
October 7, 2020
Melody Schreiber
Why Trump’s Experimental Covid-19 Treatment Could Be Bad News for Everyone Else
Even if Regeneron's manufactured antibodies are working for the president, the ripple effects could harm the pandemic response down the line.
June 3, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Vaccines Don’t Make Money
Why we can't leave pandemic prevention to Big Pharma
September 18, 2019
Joshua Hunt
We Didn’t Stand a Chance Against Opioids
Alaska’s health clinics were founded to help indigenous people like my family. Thanks to the FDA and Big Pharma, the clinics unwittingly enabled a crisis instead.
June 3, 2019
Alex Pareene
Do Democrats Actually Want to Make Drugs Cheaper?
Or are they just looking to cut a deal for the sake of cutting a deal?
November 10, 2009
Jonathan Cohn
New Evidence of Pharma's Sweetheart Deal
September 2, 2009
Isaac Chotiner
Megan McArdle's Word Games
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