New York State Officials Recommend Legalizing Marijuana
A man smokes marijuana at a protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in April 2015.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the United States faces a devastating opioid epidemic, New York State officials have offered up one potential alternative: marijuana. In a report released Friday by the New…
Scottish Police Search for an Anti-Trump Paraglider
A Greenpeace demonstrator flies over the Trump Turnberry golf resort.John Linton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scottish police are looking for information about the pilot of a Greenpeace paraglider who flew an anti-Trump banner within 100 yards of the president. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams of Scottish police told the…
There’s a Disturbing Element to Europe’s Long Postwar Peace
The future of Europe? Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There is an ominous passage in Tony Judt’s Postwar that’s stayed with me ever since I first read it. It starts on page 27 in my edition, and since it’s near the beginning you can read the whole excerpt on Amazon…
A California Politician Called For a Straight Pride Month. It Didn’t Go Well.
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ted Hickman is, at the moment, vice mayor of Dixon, California, a small city about 30 minutes outside Sacramento. He’s straight, he’s proud, and he wants the world to know it, according to a snarky newspaper piece he wrote in the town paper, the…
ICE Detainee Dies in For-Profit Georgia Immigrant Detention Center
Suspected illegal border crossers at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immigration detention isn’t just costly—it’s deadly. Efrain De La Rosa, a 40-year-old Mexican national, was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center on July 10…
Trump Has Already Spent 30 Percent of His Days as President at Trump Properties
Andrew Milligan/PA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If nothing else, President Donald Trump seems to know how to relax. After yet another week of pissing off international allies, the New York Times reports that he’s spending the weekend at Trump Turnberry, his luxury resort in Scotland, which means that…