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The Insurance Industry's Heartless Logic: Getting Beaten by Your Husband Is an Excuse to Deny Coverage

Posted on Sep 15, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

In eight states and the District of Columbia, being the victim of domestic violence is considered a pre-existing condition by insurance companies.

Priceless: How the Federal Reserve Bought the Economics Profession

Posted on Sep 14, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

The Federal Reserve so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for economists.

Van Jones Steps Down as Green Czar to Avoid Distraction of Right-Wing Drumbeat

Posted on Sep 6, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

Jones said right-wingers' vicious smears against him represent a strategy of "distract and divide" on the eve of the fight for health reform and clean energy.

Did Anti-Drug Propaganda Help Bring About a Psychedelic Renaissance?

Posted on Jul 20, 2009, Source: Wiley Press

As the anti-drug program spread into 3/4 of all school districts by the '90s, America's youth enjoyed a psychedelic renaissance.

This Is Your Country on Drugs: How the DARE Generation Got High

Posted on Jul 6, 2009, Source: Wiley Press

Exclusive from new book shares the '80s generation's encounter with illicit drugs, and how they really caught on.

Rhode Island Will License Medical Marijuana Shops

Posted on Jun 22, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

Once the law takes effect, the state will be the first in the nation to have one officially licensed nonprofit center selling marijuana.

Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory

Posted on May 18, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

The Supreme Court removes one of the last barriers to full implementation of medical marijuana laws.

Obama Bans Funding for Needle Exchange

Posted on May 9, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

Obama's budget goes back on a position he had taken during the campaign.

Liberalism's Brain on Drugs

Posted on Dec 6, 2005, Source: In These Times

If we live in a fundamentally free society, how does confining a drug offender to 17 years in prison jibe with America's values of equality and liberty?

Congressional Malpractice

Posted on Nov 9, 2005, Source: Washington City Paper

The judge who sentenced Jonathan Magbie to jail isn't the only party complicit in his death: the U.S. Congress also played a part in this tragedy.
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