“Yes, pharmaceutical companies are charging exorbitant prices for many of their products. But patients do not receive expensive medications unless physicians prescribe them,” writes physician and behavioral scientist Peter Ubel.
Scalia’s “admirers are right that he was brilliant and that he cultivated a bold vision of the Constitution, but these qualities are precisely the source of the damage he leaves behind him,” writes law professor Jedediah Purdy.
North Carolina will play a lesser role in selecting presidential candidates if the March 15 primary is moved to May or early summer because of legal wrangling over redistricting, according to a pair of Duke political scientists who spoke Tuesday to local reporters.
Politics and Race
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Health Care
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Modern Healthcare
Health Care
Should candidates be vilifying physicians for high cost of medical care?
“Yes, pharmaceutical companies are charging exorbitant prices for many of their products. But patients do not receive expensive medications unless physicians prescribe them,” writes physician and behavioral scientist Peter Ubel.
Forbes
Shaky Foundation
Politicians love to say the word “infrastructure,” says Henry Petroski. But turning words into action is a different matter.
David Rohde on third-party campaigns
Supreme Court
Disregarding the Constitution they seek to uphold
U.S. Senate
Could Supreme Court fight put Richard Burr’s Senate seat in play?
The Charlotte Observer
Antonin Scalia
Scalia’s contradictory originalism
Scalia’s “admirers are right that he was brilliant and that he cultivated a bold vision of the Constitution, but these qualities are precisely the source of the damage he leaves behind him,” writes law professor Jedediah Purdy.
The New Yorker
NC Primary
NC likely won’t play big role if primary delayed
North Carolina will play a lesser role in selecting presidential candidates if the March 15 primary is moved to May or early summer because of legal wrangling over redistricting, according to a pair of Duke political scientists who spoke Tuesday to local reporters.
Jedediah Purdy on Donald Trump