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How America's Cancer Industry Buries Its Cures

A cancer cell.

There have been multiple companies that have cured cancer in animal trials.

None of them make it through the FDA, however.

And it's not because the cures didn't work.

Power

America's Lost Court and What Else We Lost

A federal building in New Orleans in 1860, which often served as a venue for United States Circuit Court proceedings.

The original "middle courts" of the United States dealt with far more than just appeals.

The courts that replaced them merged two things that both Hamilton and Jefferson warned must be kept separate.

And now most Americans can't tell the difference.

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Why Are America's Antibiotics Coming From China?

A map of China.

Antiobiotics save millions of American lives every year.

But America's drug companies closed most of the factories that made them.

And now they come from China with the Chinese knowing the power this gives them.

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The Group Getting Rich By Keeping the Malls Empty

A vacant Montgomery Ward Store at Bella Terra mall in Huntington Beach, CA.

A mall owner used to make money by keeping the malls full.

Real estate groups and venture capital took over.

And now, it pays more to keep the malls empty.

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Going Digital Is Making History Disappear

A computer with an error message.

Governments and companies moved most of their records to cloud storage.

They destroyed the physical records to save money.

But then found out that digital doesn't always last.

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Congress Is Voting When Nobody Is Around

A mostly empty United States House of Representatives chamber when that chamber's version of the bill to end the penny was

The Senate passed a bill to give the Secretary of the Treasury the power to end the minting of all US coins.

Both the House and the Senate voted to end the production of the penny.

And these and an increasing number of other laws are "passing" without anyone actually voting on them.