We remember Ernest Drucker and Ulrich Kohler, two heroes of harm reduction who passed away this week. Ernie Drucker was a founder of the International Harm Reduction Association and founding Editor in Chief of Harm Reduction Journal.

#Remembering Ernie Drucker, a beloved former faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore. A distinguished epidemiologist, public health advocate, and scholar whose work in drug policy and human rights made a lasting impact. 🕯️🏥 #inmemoriam thenewpress.com/authors/ernest…

Ernest Drucker, a pioneering public health researcher, pressed for changes in drug policy, alternatives to prison and needle-exchange programs to slow the spread of AIDS. nyti.ms/4hjJJkW

I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that my book BAD COMPANY: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is officially available for preorder wherever you get your books. I worked so hard on this thing and would love if you read it. bookshop.org/p/books/bad-co…

Self-promotion alert: Delighted to say that my upcoming book, Capitalism and its Critics, got a starred review in Publishers Weekly. publishersweekly.com/9780374601089

MURDER THE TRUTH is finally out in the world! The book reveals how a group of lawyers, activists, judges and politicians have waged a years-long and increasingly successful campaign against press freedoms and the First Amendment. A brief thread. harpercollins.com/products/murde…

“a stark reminder of the human toll of corporate penny pinching.” I'm thrilled that the first review of BAD COMPANY is an excellent one from Publisher’s Weekly! publishersweekly.com/9780063299351

1. One of history’s most remarkable tales is how Johnson & Johnson sold for more than a century Johnson’s Baby Powder contaminated with asbestos. I tell this story in “No More Tears,” a book about Johnson & Johnson on sale April 8, 2025. Pre-order here: rb.gy/9r0119.

Happy to officially announce — I'm writing a book! From the early days of In-Q-Tel and Palantir to the founding of DIU, Anduril and Shield AI up through this current boom in 🇺🇸/acc energy, I present:

Quickest explanation of a basis trade and how it blows up. What is the Basis Trade? It's an arbitrage trade aiming to profit from the price difference between a bond and its futures contract. "Basis" means "a spread". For instance, if a futures is trading at a higher price

If it weren't for the tariffs, this would be one of the biggest stories in the world right now. From Bloomberg economist David Wilcox:

Profit shifting. Tax avoidance. 0% corporate tax paid. Excellent investigation into Ireland's tax mirage and multinational accounting practices from the Business Post . Still, don't ever say that Ireland is a tax haven.

💸 Nearly $1 trillion in intellectual property–linked intangible assets has been parked in Ireland by US multinationals. Our latest forensic investigation: Ireland’s $1 Trillion Mirage: How a Nation Became a Vault for Global Profits democracychallenged.com/2025/05/07/ire…

Sharpe James, who served as mayor of Newark from 1986 to 2006, has died at 89. newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/sh…

Leslie Epstein, author and creative writing professor whose novels drew from his family’s storied legacy, dies at 87 trib.al/pIUpZma

A great journalist and true mensch:

Tom Robbins, one of this city's best investigative writers and a man whose feel for the toll taken by injustice ran deep, died last night. His story for The Marshall Project on the forgotten of Attica, was so fine and a reminder of what journalism can accomplish: themarshallproject.org/2015/02/28/att…

Tom Robbins and I enjoyed many great concerts together over the years -- Irma Thomas, Syl Johnson, Candi Staton, Dan Penn/Spooner Oldham. One of the best was James Carr, at The Bottom Line. Playing this in his memory this AM: youtube.com/watch?v=l5evgZ… Tom Robbins

Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle. Such a brave, courageous friend. RIP nytimes.com/2025/06/22/boo… via @NYTimes

My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: nytimes.com/2025/07/14/bus…