Data compiled by the New York Times has shown that the number of drug overdose deaths in 2016 exceeded the 59,000 mark. If this initial assessment stands after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases its official data in December, the high rates of overdose deaths reported in 2016 will represent a 19 percent rise from the previous
One of the few elected Democratic lawmakers with an extensive anti-war record , Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), has combined forces with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) to push legislation through both the House and the Senate that would bar federal agencies from using taxpayer-backed funds to provide weapons, training, intelligence, or any other type
“Big Corporation helps government regulators crush poor people.” This is a headline fit for a series on the current war against making loans to low-income borrowers — although we’ll never see it framed this way by The Washington Post or The New York Times . But this is exactly what’s happened with payday loans as Google has joined government
The coronavirus epidemic has for the past couple of weeks compelled panicked households to flood grocery stores in search of basic goods. Until this past weekend, however, US governments had refrained from using special powers to order forced business closures and curfews. Autocratic responses to the health crisis, it seemed, were being put in
Horrific videos out of China, uploaded at great personal risk , expose the communist lies and mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak. The mishandling of public health by the centralized Chinese regime is just the latest example of how the regime believes control, secrecy, and centralization are the solutions to most any problem. Examples extend well
California isn’t nicknamed Commiefornia for nothing. Decades of limited housing, water use restrictions, overzealous environmental regulations, and now a rapidly increasing minimum wage make it difficult for entrepreneurs. But despite it all, businesses are adapting, shifting investments away from personnel and toward automation. Robots, at an
In Fratelli tutti , Pope Francis defines his vision of what an improved social order would look like, using theological elements, historical misconceptions , and political philosophy to create what has been dubbed his “quasi-humanitarian” manifesto. But in an attempt to swim with today’s political current , Francis pushes a “re-envisaging [of]
If Democratic candidate Joe Biden is elected America’s forty-sixth president, what happens to the mandate to end the endless wars? It doesn’t go away, but rather falls on the Democrat-controlled House and (presumably, for now) Republican-controlled Senate. President Donald Trump was elected partly due to his promise to rein in the US government’s
When reports regarding COVID-19 illnesses began to surface, media outlets initially downplayed the risks. But they soon followed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) claims that the virus was more serious than the seasonal flu and that a high volume of cases could prove burdensome to healthcare systems, and governments around the globe scrambled
Americans are going hungry because of coronavirus, and they are turning to theft to survive—at least that’s what we’re supposed to believe. Nearly 26 million Americans did not have enough food through the month of November, according to survey data reported by the Washington Post . Covid-19 was solely to blame, until the article’s ending when
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