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| One way to lower drug prices | | Prescription drug prices are soaring, as exemplified by pharmaceutical giant Gilead's $1,000-per-pill hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi. High prices for drugs that treat deadly diseases are creating barriers for patients, burdening governments and leading to rationing and denial of lifesaving treatments around the world. |
| What headscarf ruling reveals about America | | Consider some differences between Europe and the United States on freedom of religion and free speech: In parts of Europe, it's illegal for a Muslim woman to wear a head scarf. In the United States, it's illegal to refuse to hire a woman because she wears a head scarf. In parts of Europe, it's illegal, even in an academic paper, to deny that the Holocaust took place. In the United States, it's illegal to prosecute someone for making specific, terroristic threats on social media. |
| Time to end Israel's impunity | | Last summer, while visiting our family in Shuafat, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, my son Tariq was chased, zip-tied, and beaten unconscious by Israeli police officers as he watched a protest. The protest was in response to the kidnapping and killing of his 16-year-old friend and cousin, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, by Israeli settlers the day before. |
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