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Buchanan Breaks Ranks (Presidential Election 2000, Religion, Parties, Politics, Society)

In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he'll bolt the Republic

Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry
It's Time for Realism (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: reponses by Peter Kornbluh, Mike Gray and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Michael Massing
Life of a Scandal (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

In mid-October 1996, two months after the publication of Gary Webb's series "Dark Alliance" in the San Jose Mercury News, an extraordinary town meeting took place in Compton, California, o

Peter Kornbluh
Perils of Prohibition (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh and Elliott Currie--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Mike Gray
Yes, Treatment, But... (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Follow these links for the other articles in this forum: the original article by Michael Massing, and reponses by Peter Kornbluh andMike Gray--and Massing's concluding thoughts.

Elliott Currie
Response (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

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Michael Massing
An Old City Seeks a New Model (Healthcare Policy, Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

In early December 1984, an undercover police officer named Marcellus Ward met with a pair of heroin dealers above a candy store in southwest Baltimore.

Joshua Wolf Shenk
Does Europe Do It Better? (Drug War and Drug Policy, Regions and Countries, Society)

Listen to a debate among drug policy advocates and you're likely to hear impassioned claims about the brilliant success (or dismal failure) of more "liberal" approaches in certain European countr

Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
George Soros's Long Strange Trip (Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

Research assistance: David Levinson Wilk.

Russ Baker
Marijuana Made Easy (Health and Disease, Drug War and Drug Policy, Society)

For more than half a century, the US government has maintained a hard line on marijuana, denying that the plant has any medical value at all.

Cynthia Cotts

Blogs

Thursday DAYBOOK: Big Gay Rights Win, Jon Stewart Hits Congress, Glenn Gould Film, More
Greg Mitchell
August 5, 2010
GAO Finds Massive Fraud at For-Profit Colleges
StudentNation

The question remains what will be done about the practices exposed by the GAO report.

August 5, 2010
New Poll Finds 41% of GOPers Doubt Obama's USA Birth: When Will Media Expose What This Really Means?
Greg Mitchell
August 4, 2010
California Overturns Anti-Gay Prop 8

California's infamous anti-gay Prop 8 has been overturned! In this recent related slideshow, The Nation looks at the status of major gay rights issues including marriage, and the obstacles activists still need to conquer in order to finally achieve equality.

August 4, 2010
Canadian Students Work to Increase Sustainability in Rural Communities
StudentNation

 One Canadian university is sending students to help green small rural communities in Alberta.

August 4, 2010
DAYBOOK for Wednesday: Colbert Mocks Laura Ingraham, Plus Birthers Exposed, Kanye West, Tina Fey, More
Greg Mitchell
August 4, 2010
White House to Obama Activists: Let Them Eat (Birthday) Cake
The Notion

Ask what you can do for your president's birthday.

August 4, 2010
The ADL and the 'Mosque at Ground Zero': Is This the End of the Anti-Defamation League?
Bob Dreyfuss

New York OK's the mosque, but the ADL's reputation suffers what ought to be a fatal blow.

August 4, 2010
DeVos-ed From Reality: Why I Was Booted From the Pat Williams Show
The Notion

I was all set to appear on the radio program of Orlando Magic Senior Vice President Pat Wiliams to discuss my new book, Bad Sports. Then I received the news that I was no longer necessary.

August 3, 2010
What Are Teachers Worth?
The Notion

If we can't find a way to pay living wages for kindergarten teachers, who are we?

August 3, 2010
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