LEADS

How Private Equity Is Ruining American Health Care
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-20/private-equity-is-ruining-health-care-covid-is-making-it-worse

Covid-19 has exposed the limits of the pharmaceutical market model
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/19/covid-19-exposed-limits-drug-development-model/

In defense of Big Pharma, the innovation engine we love to hate
https://www.fastcompany.com/90504726/in-defense-of-big-pharma-the-innovation-engine-we-love-to-hate

Drugmakers Tout COVID-19 Vaccines To Refurbish Their Public Image
https://khn.org/news/drugmakers-tout-covid-19-vaccines-to-refurbish-their-public-image/

The Man Betting $1 Billion That Pfizer Can Deliver A Vaccine By This Fall
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2020/05/20/the-man-betting-1-billion-that-pfizer-can-deliver-a-vaccine-by-this-fall/

Moderna Shares Resume Slump As Coronavirus Vaccine Questions Mount
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/moderna-shares-resume-slump-as-vaccine-questions-mount

Vaccine experts say Moderna didn’t produce data critical to assessing Covid-19 vaccine
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/19/vaccine-experts-say-moderna-didnt-produce-data-critical-to-assessing-covid-19-vaccine/

Amid Hydroxychloroquine Uproar, Real Studies of Drug Are Suffering
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/politics/hydroxychloroquine-trump-coronavirus.html

Trump attacks study, defends using malaria drug for COVID-19
https://apnews.com/976640b2c6be1b7083e019bb7bba613d

The Trump administration gave a drug-making contract worth up to $812 million to a small Virginia firm founded less than 6 months ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-admin-gives-812m-contract-to-small-virginia-firm-2020-5

CEO tapped by Trump to make generic drugs during pandemic has a dicey track record
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2020/05/19/trump-generics-covid19-drug-shortages-phlow/

He opposed public lands and wildlife protections. Trump gave him a top environment job
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/20/william-perry-pendley-trump-pick-top-environmental-post-endangered-species

Trump Administration Waives Environmental Safeguards to Fast-Track 69 Miles of Border Fence Construction
https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/05/trump-administration-waives-environmental-safeguards-fast-track-69-miles-border-fence-construction/165464/

Trump's New Border Wall Contract Will Cost More Than $30 Million Per Mile
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-new-border-wall-contract-will-cost-more-30-million-per-mile-1505341

Company Wins $1.28 Billion Wall Contract After Wooing Trump On Fox News
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-wall-fisher-sand-and-gravel_n_5ec4ced8c5b62cbfaa2f24ae

Why Trump needs to obscure his Saudi arms sales
https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/why-trump-needs-to-obscure-his-saudi-arms-sales/

Pompeo Declined Interview Request From Inspector General About Saudi Arms Sales
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/politics/mike-pompeo-state-department-inspector-general-saudi-arabi.html

BREAKING: Mike Pompeo Reportedly Hosted GOP Donors, Supreme Court Justices, and Fox News Hosts at Lavish, Taxpayer-Funded Private Dinners
https://www.mediaite.com/news/breaking-mike-pompeo-reportedly-hosted-gop-donors-supreme-court-justices-and-fox-news-hosts-at-lavish-taxpayer-funded-private-dinners/

Pompeo’s treatment of closest aide from Kansas was a subject of fired IG’s inquiry
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article242845711.html

Trump Just Removed the IG Investigating Elaine Chao. Chao’s Husband, Mitch McConnell, Already Vetted the Replacement.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/trump-removed-watchdog-investigating-elaine-chao-mcconnell-vetted-replacement/

'We need answers': Departure of NASA's human spaceflight chief raises alarm
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/nasa-human-spaceflight-director-ousted-268327

‘A moonshot mission’: Trump campaign eyes a return to megarallies
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/trump-mega-rally-campaign-269656

GOP operatives seek to get 'extremely pro-Trump' doctors on TV to push immediate economic reopening
https://theweek.com/speedreads/915511/gop-operatives-seek-extremely-protrump-doctors-tv-push-immediate-economic-reopening

Sen. Sherrod Brown inquires of Treasury’s Steven Mnuchin: ‘How many workers should give their lives to increase the GDP or the Dow Jones by a thousand points?’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sen-sherrod-brown-goes-after-treasurys-steven-mnuchin-how-many-workers-should-give-their-lives-to-increase-the-gdp-or-the-dow-jones-by-a-thousand-points-2020-05-19

The ‘Don’t Worry, Make Money’ Strategy Trouncing The Stock Market By 30 Percentage Points
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2020/05/19/the-dont-worry-make-money-strategy-trouncing-the-stock-market-by-30-percentage-points/#4c4e6a2f2028

Thousands of sports fans who can't gamble on their favorite teams are reportedly flocking to the stock market instead
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-sports-fans-bet-on-markets-coronavirus-limits-sports-2020-5-1029218806

Masks required, fewer games, buffet closed: Idaho casino offers glimpse of gambling's future
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/masks-required-fewer-games-buffet-closed-idaho-casino-offers-glimpse-n1210756

Casino Reopenings Draw In Gamblers Despite Online Gaming Surges
https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2020/casino-reopenings-draw-gamblers-despite-online-gaming-surges/

US Coronavirus Deaths Hit 93,521; Maryland, 16 States See Spikes In Cases Days After Reopening
https://www.ibtimes.com/us-coronavirus-deaths-hit-93521-maryland-16-states-see-spikes-cases-days-after-2979201

Florida scientist says she was fired for refusing to change Covid-19 data 'to support reopen plan'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/20/florida-scientist-dr-rebekah-jones-fired-refusing-change-covid-19-data-reopen-plan

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine sets the example for a smart, efficient reopening
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-sets-the-example-for-a-smart-efficient-reopening

49 of 50 governors have better coronavirus poll numbers than Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/19/49-50-governors-have-better-coronavirus-numbers-than-trump/

This 2020 presidential forecast says Trump faces historic defeat due to terrible economy
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-2020-presidential-forecast-says-trump-faces-historic-defeat-due-to-terrible-economy-2020-05-20

Why Trump Will Likely Lose in November
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-trump-will-likely-lose-in-november/

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

The Deep Conspiracy Roots of Europe’s Strange Wave of Cell-Tower Fires
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/18/deep-conspiracy-roots-europe-wave-cell-tower-fires-264997

China Has a Whole New Conspiracy Theory About the Origins of Coronavirus
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gg5j/china-has-a-whole-new-conspiracy-theory-about-the-origins-of-coronavirus

China launches new Twitter accounts, 90,000 tweets in COVID-19 info war
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-launches-new-twitter-accounts-90-000-tweets-covid-19-n1207991

China’s New Outbreak Shows Signs the Virus Could Be Changing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-20/china-sees-signs-new-cluster-carries-virus-longer-than-in-wuhan

Coronavirus: China's wet markets 'stack odds in favour' of deadly viruses spreading to humans
https://sports.yahoo.com/coronavirus-china-wet-markets-viruses-131638194.html

It’s time to implement solutions that make the bushmeat trade unnecessary
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/its-time-to-implement-solutions-that-make-the-bushmeat-trade-unnecessary-commentary/

How Coronavirus—and Lack of Tourism—Impact East Africa's Gorillas and Communities
https://www.newsweek.com/how-coronavirus-lack-tourismaffect-east-africas-gorillas-communities-1504408

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

A secret experiment revealed: In a medical first, doctors treat Parkinson’s with a novel brain cell transplant
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/12/medical-first-parkinsons-brain-cell-transplant-stem-cells/

Scientists find evidence of link between diesel exhaust, risk of Parkinson's
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-scientists-evidence-link-diesel-exhaust.html

We spend 90% of our time inside—why don’t we care that indoor air is so polluted?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90506856/we-spend-90-of-our-time-inside-why-dont-we-care-that-indoor-air-is-so-polluted

THE MEDIA SCRUM

Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farrow.html

Matt Lauer: Why Ronan Farrow Is Indeed Too Good to Be True
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/matt-lauer-why-ronan-farrow-is-indeed-too-good-to-be-true/

Ronan Farrow, Ben Smith, and the problem of the superstar journalist
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/ronan_farrow_ben_smith.php

ODDS, ENDS

Was This Hit Power Ballad Written by the CIA?
https://slate.com/culture/2020/05/wind-of-change-podcast-review-scorpions-song-cia.html

Jane Roe’s Deathbed Confession: Anti-Abortion Conversion ‘All an Act’ Paid for by the Christian Right
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right

Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet for Museum of the Bible 'stolen,' feds say
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hobby-lobby-gilgamesh-tablet-stolen-feds-say

Federal authorities demand Hobby Lobby's 'looted' Gilgamesh Dream Tablet be returned to Iraq
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8336421/Federal-authorities-demand-Hobby-Lobbys-looted-Gilgamesh-Dream-Tablet-returned-Iraq.html

The vital work ahead: evangelizing the evangelicals and demythologizing the empire
https://baptistnews.com/article/the-vital-work-ahead-evangelizing-the-evangelicals-and-demythologizing-the-empire/

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