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The Drug Enforcement Administration made headlines last week for sticking to the status quo: the agency declined to change cannabis’ classification under the Controlled Substances Act to a lower, less strictly regulated schedule. Cannabis sits alongs...

The Tea Party was always tragically miscast. The angry oldsters who formed its white-hot core fancied themselves as tax protesters. Their self-image was informed, inflamed and more than occasionally exploited by conservative operations ranging from F...

The Bermuda Government is responsible for many things that affect our daily lives. Think of health standards, garbage collection, taxation, education, firefighting, child services, libraries, parks ... The list goes on, but if you boiled it down to ...

This month the Associated Press published a valuable report about the weak evidentiary basis for flossing as a way to reduce plaque and tooth decay, and to prevent gum disease. In response, the American Dental Association and the American Academy of ...

Through the first week of the Olympic Games in Rio, it has been moving to see so much of what has lately been generating anxieties at home contribute so powerfully to American pre-eminence on the international stage. If race, gender, immigration and ...

Heaven help a woman in Baltimore who reports rape or sexual assault to the city’s police. Odds are her complaint will be all but ignored and minimally investigated. Or it could be worse: for many who turn to the authorities, the tables are quickly tu...

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has just issued a helpful reminder to all Americans. In denying a petition to loosen restrictions on cannabis, the agency repeated that the drug has “no currently accepted medical use” in the United States....

The issue of same-sex marriage must be addressed with due consideration for every human being, but we are not the only country who has faced this issue. There are several countries around the world that recognise same-sex marriage: Argentina, Canada,...

This is really targeting the nice white people I’m surrounded by who don’t realise that they need to make an effort towards unity and speaking up for travesties that our country and system are inflicting on primarily black people. I’m in Utah — for ...

I have a confession: the other day I went sailing in Rio de Janeiro. I took the whole family, in fact, on a blustery, pre-Olympic afternoon. And we enjoyed it. There were no shoals of garbage, no bodies bobbing in brine, as so many alarming pre-Olymp...