Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.

The latest turmoil within Commissioner Marty Makary’s Food and Drug Administration, an alleged bribery scandal involving a high-level official, is no anomaly. The Sunday resignation of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s Dr. George Tidmarsh, handpicked by Makary, reveals a pattern of obstructionism and chaos, as well as an antipathy toward green-lighting new therapies, within the […]