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Marijuana was by no means the first boom crop to delight my home county of Humboldt, here in Northern California, five-hours' drive from San Francisco up Route 101. Leaving …

An article published today in TIME magazine explores that little medication with which so many of us are intimately familiar: the pill. The piece is TIME’s cover story, commemorating …

Obama calls Arizona immigration bill “misguided.” The Washington Post reports that President Obama urged Congress today to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, saying that inaction would lead to "misguided …

For a number of years, the running joke about me among my friends was that, because I write for a living, I'm a bum. They didn't really mean it, …

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Perhaps I'm biased. I bought $25,000 of stock in a corporation that I thought had a good idea. Little did I know that the CEO also had a second …

Washington - The politics of financial regulatory reform are simple. After the meltdown and the bailout, many Americans — perhaps most Americans — are inclined to see Wall Street …

A discussion with Charles Bowden on what's driving the so-called “war on drugs” and who's benefiting from it? …

2048: Humanity's Agreement to Live Together by J. Kirk Boyd Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2010 The first time I heard John Lennon's “Imagine,” I was a high school kid with …

Moyers and economists James Kwak and Simon Johnson wonder whether the financial powers are more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever.