Abortion pill transformed into a rare-disease profit machine

In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.

Guzmán's trial offers a telenovela-style explainer on Mexican cartels and their American clients

Meth is no more harmful than any other substance taken in proper dosage. Here's what we get wrong about it

Tomato prices skyrocket due to damaged crops

A slick documentary with a jokey premise argues that the "war on drugs" has been a soul-destroying disaster

Record labels move to lift the minimum-price rules that kept mom-and-pop stores in business.

No bartenders staffing your virtual holiday party this year? No problem

Behind bars, I learned that drug prohibition will never work, and here’s why: no one gives a f*ck

An economist looks at why Turkey prices fall at the time of highest demand and other interesting facts

The efficiencies delivered by global markets aren't limited to cheap TVs and blue jeans. Heroin and coke are also priced to move.

Some pharmaceutical companies cited "manufacturing costs" and "market conditions" to explain massive price hikes

Two million Americans are locked up, most for nonviolent drug offenses. Some maverick Republicans -- yes, Republicans -- are trying to change that.

She has risk factors for addiction, but what's a little pot or cocaine between lovers?