Colombia may be the home of magic realism as a literary movement, but Argentina seems to be the home of magical thinking as a governing philosophy. The latest trend in magical wish fulfillment has Argentines looking across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal, which supposedly […]
Author: Erik Sass
Combo Therapy Offers Better Control of Diabetes, Study Suggests
This week brought exciting news for type 2 diabetes patients as well as the medical and public health professionals who are working to control this potentially deadly disease: a new study published in The Lancet suggests that using two common drugs for controlling diabetes […]
How to improve access to medicines — and how NOT to
With the UN General Assembly convening in New York to discuss all manner of policy issues, one high-profile area of debate is the appropriate role of governments and regulators in ensuring that as many people as possible have access to the medicines they need. […]
TES Weekly Update: Diabetes breakthrough promises healthier lives for millions
Editor’s Note: And undermining IP laws promises opposite Have you ever noticed that “fake news” almost always means bad news? Of course it’s taken for granted that “real news” usually means the same. Well, here’s that rarest of treasures, a piece of news that is both real and good, which frankly everyone should be […]
Yes, a financial transaction tax is an awful idea
A tax on financial transactions has long been a popular idea on the far left, with the latest proposal for a levy on transactions coming from UK’s Labour Party under the leadership of the unreconstructed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn. However the proposal is a spectacularly […]
Google investigations aim to protect free market, say state AGs
The investigation into Google’s competitive practices launched by the attorneys general of 48 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia isn’t a witch hunt or political maneuver, but a broad bipartisan effort to protect the free market and American consumers, according to Curtis […]
Court ruling makes irrigating farmland risky business
A U.S. district court in San Francisco, in its infinite wisdom, has issued a ruling that threatens to make it virtually impossible — or just really, really expensive — for farmers to irrigate cropland. While the ruling currently only applies in California, it sets […]
“Medicare for all” is a stepping stone to socialized medicine – and thence…
Responding to pressure from the Democratic Party’s leftwing, Nancy Pelosi has called for “Medicare for all,” as demanded by Bernie Sanders and dutifully parroted by his rivals as part of the party’s primaries. But the plan is a classic “Trojan Horse,” Steve Forbes argues, […]
Feds back down on private property grab
The U.S. federal government is not known for dialing back its authority or admitting defeat in cases with its own citizens — but this rarest of events has apparently come to pass in Louisiana, where the feds have given up on a sweeping land […]
More Trump tariffs coming for Europe?
A longstanding trade dispute between the U.S. and EU predates Donald Trump’s presidency — but he’ll be more than happy to roll out another round of tariffs in response, Politico reports. That’s the upshot of European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström’s warning to EU […]