Bayer CEO Marjin Dekkers: Natco Pharma Ltd. (NTCPH) applied directly to India’s patents office and was awarded the nation’s first compulsory license in March 2012 to make a copy of Bayer’s Nexavar cancer drug at a 97 percent discount to the original product. In March...
Author: Erik Loomis
I know it doesn't seem that way right now for many of us in the east, but the climate continues to warm. 2013 was the 4th warmest year on record..
I was feeling pretty hopeless about the forthcoming Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, which challenges the constitutionality of states signing closed shop contracts with public sector unions. If.
Free trade agreements are so bipartisan now that even a large number of liberals support them. But free trade agreements and the resultant fully mobile capital unhinged to states has done more than any other thing to destroy the union movement, kneecap the popular environmentalism...
I may not have any boxing cats for you tonight. And I may not have any firefighting cats either. Or any LOL-style cat photos from the 1870s. But I do.
Why doesn't West Virginia have decent environmental regulations? Because the state legislature has to approve each one! West Virginia imposes an unusual hurdle for its Department of Environmental Protection: Regulations.
As another oil train is dangling over a railroad bridge in Philadelphia, some wonder whether pipelines or trains are better for transporting oil. The answer from available evidence in the United States seems that the difference is fairly negligible. Including major derailments in Alabama and...
Time to avoid Frosted Flakes and Fruit Loops, since Kellogg's has locked out the workers making the cereal at its Memphis factory and instead bused in scabs through an Ohio.
A last point on Richard Sherman, from Greg Howard, who places the reaction to Sherman in the context of American racial tropes: When you're a public figure, there are rules..
Some late Georges Méliès this week, from 1912
Drum leads us to this map of outbreaks of preventable disease. Why the big uptick in cases of whooping cough, mumps, measles and other old-timey diseases in the United States?.
On a day where we are celebrating MLK Day with a bunch of old white men complaining about the behavior of a young, brash black man in a football game.