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Can’t Swallow It Anymore
T@P The backlash against Big Pharma may have begun. By Carl Elliott
The Road to Abu Ghraib
How the United States played a large role in creating international human rights -- and then abandoned them. By Anthony Lewis
Economic Security: A Human Right
Reclaiming Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s "Second Bill of Rights." By Cass Sunstein
Good Medicine
T@P Medicare does need changes. But its expansion is the key to eventual universal coverage. By Jacob S. Hacker and Mark Schlesinger
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