Drug War

In the stunning "The House I Live In," filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has made a film about the expansive and many-tentacled topic of the drug war.

Jim Gierach a former Assistant Stateu2019s Attorney of Cook County, Illinois and Richard Van Wickler superintendent for the Cheshire County, New Hampshire Department of Corrections call for the legalization …

Forget the debate about whether the personal is political: these stories annihilate the distinction altogether.

Washington spends billions to incarcerate people for drug crimes, has criminalized Latinos and African-Americans, but the US is still the biggest drug market in the world, and violence is …

Exposing the unofficial intentions of the US war on drugs in Latin America and its deadly impact.

With so many problems in the world today u2013 global economic crisis, climate change, a corrupt political system, growing inequality and entrenched injustice u2013 why make ending the War …

Over the last 5 to 6 years, over 60,000 people have lost their lives in Mexico's drug-related wave of violence. More than 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico …

Canadian journalist Dawn Paley dispels the notion that nearly a trillion dollars spent on eradicating illegal drug trafficking (since Richard Nixon's administration) has shown any serious success.

The drug war is fueled by many things, and maybe the worst drug of all is money, to which so many are so addicted that they can never get …

Mexicou2019s old ruling party, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is set to return to power after early election results indicate the PRI candidate Enrique Peu00f1a Nieto has won the presidential …