The War on Drug Prices Is Just Getting Started
Prescription drugs at a Manhattan pharmacy in July.Spencer Platt/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that it had negotiated down the cost of the 10 most costly drugs covered by Medicare in a landmark deal. Once the reduced…
National Black Farmers Group Says Supporting GOP Ticket Is “Off the Table” After JD Vance’s Attack
John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, said Sen. JD Vance’s comments about federal benefits for Black farmers were “disgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful.”Courtesy John Boyd Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said a lot…
White House Strikes Landmark Deal to Cut Drug Costs
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that—after months of negotiations—it had finally struck a deal with prescription drug companies to slash the prices of some of Medicare’s most expensive medications, prescriptions for which currently cost…
US Approves $20 Billion More in Weapons for Israel—as the Death Toll in Gaza Reaches 40,000
On August 14, activists held a rally demanding an arms embargo outside of a Kamala Harris campaign event in New York.Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It has been a little over three weeks since President Joe Biden stepped down from…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation “All the Time”
Lev Radin/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign hosted an online panel Wednesday on the future of AI moderated, for some reason, by Ian Carroll, a self-styled journalist with a history of antisemitic statements. In the…
Talking to a Former Madam About Using AI and Big Data to Help RFK Jr.
Kristin Davis after a court appearance in New York City in 2013.Louis Lanzano/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, a mini-scoop on Radar triggered titters within the political media world: The once notorious “Manhattan Madam,” who ran a high-end escort service in…