Sixteen years ago this week, Lee Kyung Hae, a South Korean farmer, scaled a fence in Cancún, Mexico, and stabbed himself to death with a penknife while wearing a sign that read “WTO kills farmers.” Lee was outside a ministerial meeting for the World Trade...
Cannabis legalization is gathering pace worldwide. Unprecedented amounts of cocaine, MDMA, and heroin are being produced in Colombia, Holland, and Afghanistan, while labs in China are pumping out an alphabet soup of synthetic drugs. The global demand for drugs—there...
Cannabis legalization is gathering pace worldwide. Unprecedented amounts of cocaine, MDMA, and heroin are being produced in Colombia, Holland, and Afghanistan, while labs in China are pumping out an alphabet soup of synthetic drugs. The global demand for drugs – there...
With the possible exception of the actual millennial in the race, Elizabeth Warren may be the Democratic presidential candidate most attuned to that generation’s pain. Long before she was blogging about Game of Thrones, and even before the 2008 financial crisis made...
When America’s housing bubble burst over a decade ago, black families were especially devastated. Given that they had been unfairly targeted for high-cost, subprime loans, which led to their household wealth being disproportionately tied up in home equity, they...
It’s never been a bad time to be a billionaire in America, but the .01 percent are having a particularly good year. If you’re part of that vaunted club, your tax bill this year will likely be smaller than usual thanks to Republicans in Congress passing a...
With its decision to legalize weed starting on October 17, Canada has effectively signed a death warrant for pot prohibition worldwide. The United States has long been the world’s drug cop, but now that it has abandoned the beat by allowing nine states to legalize...
La Administración para el Control de Drogas (DEA) tardó al menos una década en abordar una serie de conflictos sobre el desempeño de una de sus unidades especiales, la cual ha estado vinculada a varios casos de muertes de civiles en diversos países, según un documento...
On a Tuesday evening in August the ballroom at Detroit’s Hotel St. Regis was humming. A well-dressed crowd flitted around hors d’oeuvres on white tablecloths. TV news crews adjusted cameras in front of a stage dominated by an enormous gold chandelier. The...
On Wednesday, Donald Trump gave a speech on “tax reform,” which is something he wants. He did not say exactly what tax reform would actually look like, other than a policy that is “pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-worker, and pro-American” and helps...
In my research for this column, I’ve learned that climate change is going to flood New York City, ruin sushi and coffee, worsen immigration-related problems, and increase the size and quantity of some bugs. But here’s some good news for a change: No matter...
Sitting barefoot on a log, a farmer surveys more than 200 pounds of coca leaves drying out in front of his ramshackle lean-to here in the rainforest of the Chapare region, the muggy heart of Bolivia’s coca country. The leaves, he says, represent one of his three...
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department tweeted on Thursday that the water supply in Hugo, Colorado, had been tainted with THC. It is unclear how that might have happened. The department went on to warn residents of the town of less than 1,000 that they should...
