On May 17, 2019, the City of Denver decriminalized the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms via referendum. Nevertheless, the vote was a nail-biter as the initiative was only passed by a tight margin of 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent.

However, Denver was not alone in drug reform developments. Certain counties in Texas are now implementing laxer enforcement of drug laws.

While it is fashionable to talk about Venezuela and its notorious shortage of basic goods such as toilet paper, flour, and milk Cuba is now implementing a rationing program to combat its very own shortages of basic goods.

In September 1972, the late John Kenneth Galbraith, who served as his generation’s Paul Krugman, visited China for a few weeks and wrote a book, “A China Passage,” effusively praising the communist state for its alleged economic achievements. That Mao’s China at the time was gripped in the destructive Cultural Revolution apparently did not discourage Galbraith from claiming that U.S. society should be more like that of China.

The memorialization of D-Day has conferred upon this day a special place in American history and even pop culture , and has literally generated a cottage industry of hundreds of books, articles and films .

Governments have too much power over people. But most of us can’t truly grasp how deep this power goes until our lives are completely changed by a new policy.

Like no other international mass shooting in recent memory, the Christchurch Mosque massacre in New Zealand is having a resounding impact on gun control discussions in the United States.

The parents of victims of the Parkland school shooting are suing the Broward County school board and the sheriff’s office for failing to take timely action against the school shooter who killed 17 people at the school in February 2018.

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World War I is the gift that just keeps on giving. Although the U.S. government’s intervention into this senseless, immoral, and destructive war occurred 100 years ago, the adverse effects of the war continue to besiege our nation. Among the most notable examples is the Espionage Act, a tyrannical law that was enacted two months after the U.S. entered the war and which, unfortunately, remained on the books after the war came to an end. In fact, it is that World War I relic that U.S.