Company Filings Shed Light on Trump’s Drug Pricing Deals

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks in the Oval Office on Sept. 30, 2025, as (L-R) Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz, and President Donald Trump look on. Win McNamee/Getty Images Sixteen drugmakers have entered into or are negotiating confidential pricing

Sympathy for the Gavin

Unprincipled triangulation and a stained blue dress notwithstanding, one of Bill Clinton’s more irksome legacies is that of presidential wannabes showcasing their personal tales of woe, as if leading the free world is an audition for a daytime talk show. Clinton, you might recall, entered the national stage as a child of modest means devoid

This Emperor Had Clothes

History has been kind to Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome from 161-180 A.D. Born to a patrician family in 121 A.D., his father died when he was three or four, but his mother Domitia Lucilla, a woman of remarkable intellect, saw the high potential in her son and acquired the best tutors for him. Marcus’

Don’t Fork It Over Yet

Between remembering and forgetting, treasuring and tossing out, feeling without sentimentalizing… These are the spaces Bee Wilson navigates with the precision of a drafting pen in her collection of memento stories, The Heart-Shaped Tin. The blurbs on its book jacket—a rare line-up absent of hyperbole—reflect the fact that the British author has become something of