Marijuana: From Demonization to Legalization to Celebration
With marijuana prohibition finally ending in states and cities across the country, it was grassroots activists who've steadily pushed America from the darkness of marijuana madness. "This bud's for you!"
“They were so close”: Israel kills medics trying to save dying 6-year-old Hind Rajab
"It is extremely important. The life and the story of Hind should not be end in this way."
Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer
Two choice are emerging: one is a public single-payer system. The other is a hugely-expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people – and to charge sick people an arm and a leg.
12 ways the US invasion of Iraq lives on in infamy
“Today, it is we Americans who live in infamy.”
Empires are a secret until they start falling
As the US loses its position of global supremacy, we have an opportunity to fundamentally reshape what we as a nation represent.
Our culture of violence is a result of Americans (so far) not having to...
Here’s something to grouse about.
The biggest deficit you’ve never heard of
It’s the deficit in public investment.
Déjà vu all over again
Such consequences that you have never encountered in your history.
How storied artist Mel Chin’s ‘constant revolution’ is tackling humanity’s environmental challenges
For this MacArthur fellow, art is a powerful tool for addressing complex environmental issues.
The Nincompoop Caucus Sets a Record
Lawmakers are doing all they can to eliminate healthcare coverage for people on Obamacare. Republicans have voted more than 56 times to take away health coverage for previously uninsured people. This is absurd.