*For all its fiery rhetoric, Riyadh actually benefits from a standoff between Iran and the US.*

For decades, Big Pharma has used the US government to push broader and longer patents on the rest of the world. Now the conman and Modi are about to kill the Indian generic drug industry which supplies many poor countries.

I advocate abolishing patents on medicine and treatments.

Please do not refer to patents (or anything else) as "intellectual property"; that term spreads confusion.

Senator Warren's political journey began with recognizing that bankruptcy laws for corporations can be designed either to concentrate wealth or to spread wealth.

Legal ways that a progressive US president could pressure Israel to respect Palestinians' rights, without passing new laws.

Israeli soldiers have left 50 Palestinians half-blind by shooting them in the eye with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters.

This is intentional. Hitting someone's eye by accident is extremely unlikely.