Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. After ProPublica’s David Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer, he set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid costs the same as a new iPhone. He’s covered high drug prices for years, but what he discovered shocked even him. To read more, go to propublica.org or click on the link in our bio. Ceramics by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica; video by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica, Gerardo del Valle/ProPublica and Katie Campbell/ProPublica; paintings by James Lee Chiahan for ProPublica; social video by Jose Sepulveda. (fb)

The review was initiated by a White House team, overseen by Stephen Miller, that requested information from law enforcement agencies and the U.S. intelligence community about Mexican political, government and military figures with criminal ties. Read more: https://propub.li/3YOrAVh (fb)