Obama pardoned three marijuana offenders and commuted the sentence of one crack offender, but the implications of his actions are not as optimistic as they may sound.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. November 22, 2011.
Obama granted pardons to five people, three with marijuana-related convictions, and commuted the sentence of a woman doing more than 20 years on a crack charge.
Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com. November 16, 2011.
Romney not only flip-flopped to the side of climate denial, but did so less than six months after he had said no less definitively that the world's getting warmer.
The response to the most popular petition on the 'We the People' website repeats tired lies and misdirections. Most of all, it fails to answer the petition's actual question.
Stephen Gutwillig, Bill Piper, LA Times. July 15, 2011.
Obama's own National Cancer Institute says medical pot helps with nausea, loss of appetite, pain and insomnia -- so why has he returned to prosecuting dispensaries?
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian. January 25, 2011.
Browner's exit reinforces concerns Obama is preparing compromises on his once-ambitious green agenda to try to build working arrangement with Republicans.
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research. January 12, 2011.
Obama's picks of Bill Daley and Gene Sperling will likely result in tens of millions of people across the country experience serious economic hardship.
A higher stock market is of little comfort to the millions who don't have jobs, are facing foreclosure, fraudulent or otherwise, or have no health coverage.
The debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. Here are some of the most significant stories of the year.
The package that has outraged many progressives is a Trojan Horse for the "entitlement" cutting crowd that could lead to disaster for working families over the long haul.
Simon Johnson, The Baseline Scenario. November 4, 2010.
Elizabeth Warren has the vision needed to really bring overdue changes to our financial system. If the White House downplays her role, the next two years will be very difficult.
Sadly, legalization is not even part of the policy dialogue in D.C. -- the U.S. drug czar has repeatedly said it's not even part of his or Obama's "vocabulary."
