Quote of the Day: “This is most likely the largest cartel in the history of the United States”
Roman Vondrous/CTK via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aren’t generic drugs great? Once a drug patent expires, generic manufacturers are allowed to copy the drug and sell it for far less than the brand name. Since the production cost of most generics is just a few pennies per pill…
There May Be a ‘Glimmer of Hope’ for the Great Barrier Reef
Mark Kolbe/Getty Images for Tourism Queensland Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Great Barrier Reef fared better during an oceanic heat wave last year than during sizzling weather a year earlier that caused hundreds of miles…
Getting Interior to Respond to Your FOIA Requests Just Got a Lot Harder
Shawn Thew—Pool/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In his latest attempt to make the Interior Department’s activities less transparent, Ryan Zinke shifted responsibility for handling public records requests from a career employee to a political appointee with a long history working for conservative megadonors Charles and David Koch. The order, signed…
Donald’s Next Deal: Handing Afghanistan Over to the Taliban
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the LA Times: The Trump administration is pressing to open formal peace talks with insurgents in Afghanistan by April, a timetable driven by the president’s mounting impatience with the stalemated 17-year-old war. The short-term goal, current and former officials say, is a cease-fire agreement…
Today’s Outrage: A 14-Year-Old Tweeted Anti-Gay Slurs Back in 2011
Scott Gleeson, USA Today reporter. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s an entry from my once-in-a-blue-moon series “I Agree With a National Review Writer.” It’s my way of showing that we could all get along if only we’d restrict ourselves to a tiny subset of the political issues that divide…
An Inside Look at the Crypto Con
This is John McAfee, by far the biggest draw of the cruise. If you don’t know who he is, just Google him. Do you expect me to do *all* your work for you?CoinsBank Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It used to be libertarians. I’d mention something unflattering about Ron Paul…