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The myth is that pharmaceutical industry profits come from producing and selling the many therapeutic advances that industry research has generated, but the reality is far different.

According to the study the black-white gap in upward mobility is driven entirely by differences in men’s, not women’s, outcomes.

Teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kentucky are now striking, sicking out, rallying, and Facebooking to push officials to raise their salaries and defend their benefits.

Billions knows how to have fun with its depraved, cartoon-y universe of scheming hedge-fund managers and corrupt federal attorneys; it also knows how to dial it back just enough to feel like an authentic parallel to these depraved, cartoon-y times in America.

An important viewpoint on the dangers of Trump's abuse of power, but it neglects the power of people being organized against Trump.

March for Our Lives draws huge numbers of protesters. Trump spends weekend at Florida retreat of Mar-a-Lago

Overall membership was up slightly, by 262,000. The increase included 166,000 in the private sector; 96,000 in the public sector.

What about in Somerville? According to a recent email I got from the City’s Assessing Department, “if the University was a taxable entity it would generate residential tax at $596,700 and commercial tax at $6,103,800.”

Two new books about making change in smaller cities are worthy of close study by anyone hoping to push their own city hall in a similar left-wing direction.

The latest Facebook personal data revelations provide a window into the future we have sleepwalked into, the era of Surveillance Capitalism. The sins of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica must spark demands for a much wider debate about the role of surveillance in our increasingly digital society.