Drugs

Stephen Downing,a retired deputy chief of police for the Los Angeles Police Department and Terry Nelson, retired from Department of Homeland Security on why they support treating addiction as …

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 …

“Breaking Bad” is a fascinating show. But efforts to compare it to the “Wire,” which systematically analyzed American institutions and the American experience, are misguided.

One of the most widely-advertised but falsest claims in American politics is that the modern Republican Party stands for u201csmall government.u201d

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 …

Front Page New York Times Article Describes Uruguay Governmentu2019s Proposal to Legalize and Sell Marijuana u2013 Joining Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Belize and Others in Proposing Drug War Alternatives

Front Page New York Times Article Describes Uruguay Governmentu2019s Proposal to Legalize and Sell Marijuana u2013 Joining Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Belize and Others in Proposing Drug War Alternatives

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.

Michelle Alexander: Yes, I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.