by editor | Sep 16, 2019 | Politics
Responding to pressure from the Democratic Party’s leftwing, Nancy Pelosi has called for “Medicare for all,” as demanded by Bernie Sanders and dutifully parroted by his rivals as part of the party’s primaries. But the plan...
by editor | Sep 16, 2019 | Top Page Links
The U.S. federal government is not known for dialing back its authority or admitting defeat in cases with its own citizens — but this rarest of events has apparently come to pass in Louisiana, where the feds have given up on a sweeping land...
by editor | Sep 16, 2019 | Top Page Links
A longstanding trade dispute between the U.S. and EU predates Donald Trump’s presidency — but he’ll be more than happy to roll out another round of tariffs in response, Politico reports. That’s the upshot of European...
by editor | Sep 16, 2019 | Top Page Links
The opioid epidemic in the U.S. has claimed an astonishing and horrifying 381,000 American lives through drug overdoses from 2005-2018, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Center for Health Statistics, and has driven at...
by editor | Sep 16, 2019 | Top Page Links
Legal cannabis may have seemed like the next gold rush, but it hasn’t quite turned out that way yet, as many of the biggest cultivators and distributors of medicinal and recreational cannabis are still seeking a pathway to...