Health

If the Indian drug industry makes the patent system unviable, we may finally adopt a 21st century system for financing the development of new drugs.

An interview with political sports writer Dave Zirin, about his latest book, explores the unfolding of the World Cup and the Olympics in Brazil, and what we can expect …

This is a crucial year in Vermont's fight to enact its single-payer health care law, with design and financing in the works, and while progressives are credited, that narrative …

“Terrorizing those seeking legal medical procedures is now an important First Amendment expression of ‘free speech,’ according to the Supreme Court Justices.”

In a week marking the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Mississippi was in the news when African-American voters crossed party lines to help Republican Sen. Thad Cochran narrowly defeat …

In this interview, the Courage Foundation's Sarah Harrison talks about the public's right to know, whistleblowers' need for solidarity and dangerous precedents being set to deny public access to …

In today's real-life remake of “Charlie Wilson's War,” John McCain is playing the role of Charlie Wilson and Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, is playing the role …

Medicare is approaching its 50th anniversary as one of the most durable, successful and popular federal programs ever created. Do our veterans deserve any less?

In New York or Illinois or anywhere else in the country, working people have few champions in the smoked-filled rooms of politics.