American citizens and Latin American leaders alike are warming up to legalization, but our leaders in Washington are not participating in this side of the drug policy debate.
The stock market may be up, but for working people the global political economy is likely to remain in crisis for at least another three to five years.
For over forty years, ganja has been the steadiest and most reliable source of income for Mexican traffickers, and it’s still the primary substance that lures most dealers.
When rape is a weapon of war, denying abortion services compounds grave human rights abuses. So why does the Obama administration play by the right's rules?
Heather Wokusch: The main question is not if the G8 conference will yield positive results, but how much damage Bush will do to US international standing during these three days.
Ian Welsh: John Edwards' foreign policy speech yesterday was more honest and insightful than anything the Bush administration and his Democratic rivals have mustered.
The true cost of counterfeit drug sales is being passed on to consumers in the developing world, who often suffer severe illnesses and death from fake medicines.