More state legislators are poised to legalize “recreational” marijuana beyond its medicinal use. Surprisingly, few healthcare and public health groups or leaders are pushing back on what will likely be our next public health crisis. While opinion polls show that the public is open to ...
Now that Donald Trump has officially announced he’s running for the 2024 GOP nomination, if the Republican Party wants to avoid a repeat of 2016, when it had a crowded field of 10-plus candidates splintering the vote, the smartest thing the party could do is implement ranked-choice voting for ...
Hardly a day goes by without the Federal Trade Commission announcing plans to clamp down on the tech industry. Its latest foray, a proposal for far-reaching rules to counter the bogeyman of “commercial surveillance,” comes like a great dark cloud: essentially hazy but portentous and ...
More than presidents have called 1600 Pennsylvania home. The White House has been a kind of landlocked Noah’s Ark over the years. The Lincolns had nanny goats. William Howard Taft kept a beloved dairy cow on the premises. Teddy Roosevelt housed an incredible 23 species indoors and out, ...
It’s been said that desperate times call for desperate measures. That’s the situation facing Congress this week after President Biden called on the House and Senate to intervene and prevent an impending nationwide rail strike. The White House’s announcement came as four labor unions ...
Before the election, President Biden declared that the Department of Justice would assign federal observers in 64 jurisdictions to look out for violations of the Voting Rights Act and other federal laws. In theory, these individuals were tasked with protecting the integrity of the electoral ...
