While the West Virginia Legislature debated making insulin more affordable, one pharmaceutical company surprisingly stepped up. On March 1, Eli Lilly announced it would limit monthly patient out-of-pocket costs to $35 or less for its most common insulins: its non-branded insulin starting ...
by Will Bunch So it turns out that a huge number of voters actually do understand that it’s essential for a functioning democracy to have a fair and uncompromised judiciary, even when the rules needed to make that happen tend to be arcane and unsexy. They finally get it ... in ...
by Julianna Goldman Republicans voted near-unanimously this week to weaken ethical oversight in Congress. It’s not the best look for the new House majority, but it doesn’t seem to care. Rep. George Santos of New York, newly sworn in despite lying about his background in order to ...
by Robert Reich Trump’s legal problems are mounting — with growing probability of criminal prosecutions for his attempted coup, theft of top-secret documents, and tax fraud. You know where all this is going to end up, right? The Supreme Court. What are the chances that ...
Three weeks ago, Evan Jenkins was serving as a Justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court with over two years left on his term. Last week, he was working as a private attorney trying to convince the Legislature to pass a pro-business bill. That is quite a U-turn. Jenkins resigned from ...
by Michael Smolens The closure of local newspapers across the country over the years has been coupled with concern about how public officials would behave without the community watchdog looking over their shoulders. The handwringing has been justified. Studies have shown that ...