November 15, 2019

FDA Should Make Anti‐​HIV Drug Over-the-Counter

Numerous studies show substantial price reductions when drugs move from prescription-only to over-the-counter. It is reasonable to expect the same to happen with PrEP and PEP.

• FDA Should Make Anti–HIV Drug Over-the-Counter
  By Jeffrey A. Singer

A Looming Crackdown in Hong Kong?

• A Looming Crackdown in Hong Kong?
  By Ted Galen Carpenter

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Stop the Presses! or, How the Fed Can Avoid Reserve Shortages without Bulking‐​Up, Part 2

Equipped with some historical background, we can now consider ways in which the Fed might get the Treasury and Foreign Official Institutions (FOIs) to revive their pre-crisis practice of parking surplus dollars somewhere other than at the Fed.

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U.S. Military Assistance Cannot Fix Mexico’s Cartel Mayhem

Drone strikes or U.S. special forces missions will not solve Mexico's cartel and drug problems. Trump needs to resist the temptation to adopt a futile, counterproductive military option in the country.

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Who Gets Buried at the Kremlin? Time for a Post‐​Revolutionary Purge

Communism no longer governs Russia, authoritarian though today’s ruling regime is. But the ideology lives on, symbolically, at least, as a gaggle of misanthropes, creeps, thugs, and murderers remain interred in historic Red Square and the Kremlin’s walls.

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