Opinion

Drug prices should be controlled

Pharmaceutical companies are angry with Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has vowed to force pharma CEOs to publicly answer for why their drug prices are so much higher in the United States than in other nations.Brazenly, the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson and Merck initially refused. An attorney f...

Opinion

Why not control all drug prices?

Major pharmaceutical companies in the United States are battling with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over an issue that is at the heart of whether we value human wellbeing over corporate profits. As chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Sanders has vowed to ...

Opinion

School lunch should be free

During the pandemic, the government embarked on a beautiful experiment: expanding public programs to stave off poverty. One critical component was ensuring that public school students had free lunches regardless of family income.During the 2020-2021 school year, 98 percent of all school lunches were...

Opinion

Sacrificing lives for profits

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global media, but did not. New WMO research concludes that “[t]here is a 50:50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 de...

Opinion

Coronavirus panic exposes pathology of nationalism

For years, scientists have warned about superbugs and other infectious agents borne out of industrial agricultural practices or unleashed by climate change. The fears of a new disease with no known cure that is spreading like wildfire have been the bases of plots for science fiction books and movies...