The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.
Ryan Cooper
Ryan Cooper is a senior editor at The American Prospect, and author of How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics. He was previously a national correspondent for The Week. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and Current Affairs.
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The SEC Comes for Big Crypto
The agency has sued both Binance and Coinbase for violating securities law.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Big Pharma Rigged the Patent System
Drug patents are supposed to expire in 20 years. Thanks to legal trickery, though, it usually takes a lot longer than that.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Congress Can Defeat Judicial Overreach
On today’s X-Date: Joe Manchin’s Pipeline Payoff gets immunized from judicial review, as does what could have been a deregulation ratchet.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Democrats Need to Get Over Their Pathetic Fear of the Supreme Court
On today’s X-Date, remembering what Franklin Roosevelt did when faced with a potential Court decision that would blow up the economy: prepare to ignore it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Republican Debt Ceiling Lies
Today’s X-Date: GOP members insist they’re worried about the national debt. It ain’t true.
Posted inPolitics
The New Minnesota Vikings
Progressives in the North Star State have racked up a remarkable set of victories.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The IRS Takes a Welcome Step Into the 20th Century
Maybe by 2100 America can have a proper tax authority.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What Happens if President Biden Caves on the Debt Ceiling?
Today’s X-Date: A two-year spending cap is going to harm millions of Americans.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Savvy Beltway Reporters’ Debt Ceiling Duplicity
Today on X-Date: Axios, CNBC, and Punchbowl News work to normalize Republican legislative terrorism.
