Yearly Archives: 2022
Big Pharma and GOP allies aim to sabotage Medicare drug price reforms
"Patients fought hard for the reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act—and we won't let Big Pharma and its allies' fearmongering scare us."
A year of global displacement
This year’s record-breaking global displacement crisis calls for greater protections and investment by the international community instead of more indifference and cruelty.
Can we talk sensibly about inequality and ignore the rich?
The poor don’t gain, in short, when societies ignore the rich.
Open letter from scientists to world leaders: Stop using bioenergy from forests to generate...
“The best thing for the climate and biodiversity is to leave forests standing—and biomass energy does the opposite.”
Taliban bans women from higher education in Afghanistan
This ban "takes Afghanistan back to the Taliban's first period of rule when girls could not receive formal education."
Flush with record profits, Exxon sues to block EU windfall tax
Exxon has also been rewarding its top executives, boosting the annual salary of CEO Darren Woods from $1.70 million to $1.88 million for the coming year.
Before COB on the first workday of 2023, CEOs will make more than the...
In less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, a typical CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.
The monsters of American capitalism
Three of its prime exemplars: Trump, Bankman-Fried's, and Musk!
Hard to imagine 2023 with the same irreplaceable, mind-bending blessings as 2022
Whatever its unvarnished horror, 2022 looks to go down as marking baby steps in the right direction.
The Ukraine crisis is a classic ‘security dilemma’
Looking at the conflict and its underlying causes may help to suggest a path to a mutually-acceptable diplomatic solution.