Last month, Bettsy Woodruff wrote in the Daily Beast:“If you’re looking to make some money, try locking up toddlers.” She wasn’t kidding. The Corrections Corporation of America, a for-profit corporation,...
Despite calling John McCain “a loser” for his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, characterizing many Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals, and calling Megan Kelly “a lightweight” (among...
Conventional wisdom portrays Putin as a master tactician. He isn’t one.
Less than a week after the Sochi Olympics reached a coda, Russia invaded Ukraine, violating a millennial tradition of Olympic...
As The Economist noted in February, drug prohibition has not worked as well as one might have hoped:
Since 1998, when the UN held an event entitled “A drug-free world: we can do it”, consumption of...
Almost all of the poorest billion human beings are infected by one or more infectious diseases. These diseases cripple, disfigure, and scar their victims, often leaving them subject to lifelong stigmatization...
In what began as an ad lib comment by John Kerry — that Assad surrender his chemical weapons to the international community, or else! — and culminated in a Russian-brokered deal to do just that, Syria...
It sounds like a stupid dieting infomercial – eat more and lose weight! – but studies continue to show that marijuana users, despite eating an additional 600 calories per day, are less likely to be...
Unfortunately, advocacy for the mentally ill is puny compared to the lobby for the right to own handheld devices that shoot deadly metal pellets at high speed. Between the gun-lobby’s intransigence...
Earlier this month, Katherine Flegal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finding that the one third of Americans who...
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson articulated the American ethos that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights. The question of how best to protect these rights...
The fact that drugs are illegal is so embedded in our collective consciousness that we rarely question why this is so. The answer that comes to mind is that “drugs are bad”—bad for your health, bad...
It's not hard to think of recent violence committed by people living in a different world than the rest of us. The Batman shooter. The Tuscon, Arizona shooter. The Unabomber. And so on. The media drags...
