Biden administration moves to reclassify marijuana: A major shift in US drug policy
President Biden’s Department of Justice takes historic steps to reclassify marijuana, aiming to end a ‘failed approach’ and recognize its medical benefits, sparking mixed reactions from lawmakers and advocates.
A third of 2022 midterm voters may use mailed out-ballots
Growing numbers of voters will mark their ballots at home, latest data finds.
How to cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon
A CBO report requested by Bernie Sanders lays out three options for a modest Pentagon trim over the next decade. Can we pull it off?
License Politicians: Better Late Than Never
Politics remains a glaring, backward exception to a complex, modern culture that rightly demands top credentials for top jobs: any buffoon struts into high political office and commandeers god-like powers over life and death.
‘A very dark day for democracy’: Scott Walker signs Wisconsin GOP’s ‘legislative coup’ into...
"This is the kind of thing autocrats do," declared journalist Ari Berman.
‘Fiasco for democracy’ as right-wing supreme court gives green light to partisan gerrymandering
In a decision voting rights advocates warned could open the floodgates for even more extreme and undemocratic redistricting than what is already...
How the UN can act decisively to end genocide in Gaza
Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly can take decisive action to end the genocide in Gaza, by authorizing a UN-backed arms embargo, economic boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, or even a military protection force for Gaza.
The shame of the Sacklers
As Paul Hanly, a leading attorney in the case, told the Guardian, “this is essentially a crime family … drug dealers in nice suits and dresses.”
Goodbye to all that: The UK after Brexit
Brexit could see the UK eventually lose Scotland, Northern Ireland, and a great deal of its prosperity.
Biden administration to keep Trump-era removal of the gray wolf from the Endangered Species...
“It’s shocking that Biden officials are backing Trump’s ruthless decision to strip protections from wolves.”