Ohio Jury Finds Three Pharmacy Chains Liable in Opioids Trial; Judge to Decide on Damages Award in Spring
This is the first opioids jury verdict yet handed down; thousands of opioids cases remain pending.
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The NRA Could Be Winning Its Long Gun Game Even as It Appears To Be in Dire Straits
The NRA may have done its job. Gun support may not longer depend on its aggressive lobbying.
Read more...Probable Vaccine-Escaping Covid Variant Sequenced in Gauteng, South Africa and Spreading Rapidly; Press Underplaying Downside Risk
A very nasty new variant is spreading rapidly and looks to evade monoclonal antibodies and current vaccines. Assume the brace position.
Read more...Why Don’t We See Headlines Touting the Pentagon’s Hefty Price Tag?
ions on how the press is a reliable Pentagon cheerleader.
Read more...How the Pandemic Helped Spread Fentanyl Across the US and Drive Opioid Overdose Deaths to a Grim New High
The jump in opioid deaths during the pandemic was due significantly to distribution changes that favored fentanyl.
Read more...Go Private for the Treatment You Need, NHS Tells Patients
NHS patients are being refused treatment, discharged too early and pushed towards private referrals.
Read more...Among Social Scientists, a Vigorous Debate Over Loss Aversion
Loss aversion, which allegedly explains decision-making — from investor behavior to insurance markets — isn’t ironclad, experts argue.
Read more...Why the UK (and US) Left Is Wrong To Be So Dismissive of Non-Violent Struggle
Some voices on the left advocate violent tactics. Is this recommendation well informed or desperate?
Read more...New, Radically Different Covid Variant Getting Footholds Now as Media and Officials Remain Complacent
A very different Covid variant has made its way out of Africa into Europe and the US. How worried should you be?
Read more...Employers Still in Denial About the New Normal of Fed-Up Low Wage Workers
Who’d have thunk it? Beating the workers not only does not improve morale, it is leading them not to turn up at all.
Read more...We Need Far More Radical Thinking Than Any COP26 Deal To Save the Planet
Recognizing that COP26 is not remotely ambitious enough is a step in the right direction. But it is still only a small step.
Read more...Why Minnesota, Known for Charter Schools, Is Now Joining a Nationwide Trend for Community Schools
Minnesota, the birthplace of charter schools, is now adopting an approach to school improvement that focuses on bulding rather than competing
Read more...Neoclassical Economics is Dead. What Comes Next?
Economics does not have to be the dismal science.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party?
Have the contradictions of the Democratic Party’s overarching strategy finally become untenable?
Read more...Why Voters Rejected Plans to Replace the Minneapolis Police Department – and What’s Next for Policing Reform
Assessing the significance of Minneapolis voters turning down an initiative to “replace” the police.
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