Update: Many Malaria Meds Still Fake, and Now the Real Ones Are Iffy Too
Over the summer we we reported the curious story behind a National Institutes of Health study, which had…
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Parsing Just Compensation for Wrongful Convictions
Sue Russell’s nine-piece look at wrongful convictions didn’t include two cases in the news this week, those of…
More Soda Pop = More Violence?
Maybe New York City’s giant-soda banning mayor is on to something. A new study from the Harvard School…
Europe Is On Strike — Like Postwar America
It’s been awhile Four European countries — Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal — held coordinated general strikes today,…
Solar Success Stories in the Wreckage of Sandy
Wonder if big storms like Superstorm Sandy might just pull solar panels right off the roof? There’s no…
You Got a License for Those Kools?
Governments routinely restrict the sale of dangerous drugs. The same goes for firearms. But another deadly consumer product—cigarettes—can…
The Wizard of Oz in One Sentence
It may or may not be “the best film synopsis ever,” as many have dubbed it, but Rick…
Great, Russia’s Crops Just Failed
While everyone else was worrying about hurricanes, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization quietly published its own…
Highs and Lows in a Small Town on Election Day
I could barely contain my frustration last night when I went to El Paseo restaurant to join the…
Both 1 Percent and 47 Percent Skew Blue
What do the 1 percent and the 47 percent have in common? They both went for Obama. With…