by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 5, 2018 | Drug Policy
The number of drug addicts in the USA is on the rise, and opioid overdoses are killing Americans at rate where policy must adapt. Adapt, because our attempt to incarcerate our way out of this problem has resulted in what is the greatest jailing of people in the...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 31, 2018 | Health
A recent Wall Street Journal “Best of the Web” column included an amusing bit of snark: Paul R. Ehrlich, Call Your Office – World faces ‘staggering obesity challenge: study.” For those unaware, Paul R. Ehrlich wrote a book called The...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 15, 2018 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck a blow for federalism and states’ rights in its decision to overturn a federal prohibition on sports gambling. In Murphy v NCAA, the Court ruled that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) violated the...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 10, 2018 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Connecticut recently joined a number of other states in drafting legislation that will pledge its electoral votes to whomever wins the popular vote in a Presidential election. This movement seems born of of “outrage” and negative reaction to Trump’s...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 6, 2018 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
The arc of Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacy coincided with an effort to rehabilitate the word “socialism.” It was somewhat successful, in that, nowadays, it’s not nearly as off-putting a term as “fascism” or...
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