Opinion

At the federal level, possession and the use and sale of marijuana remain illegal, 29 states and the District of Columbia now allow medicinal marijuana to be sold for the treatment of specific diseases.

As it was, the attackers took 13 precious lives, injured 24 other students and teachers, and left a scar in our nation’s soul that remains with us still.

Would you get on a plane that didn’t have a human pilot in the cockpit?

Our kids go to school to learn math and science, not how to duck and cover.

To understand why debt is so integral to household financial health, it’s helpful to look at what happened during the 2008 financial crisis.

Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our food.

Homeland Security’s misinformation—implying that elections were hacked—betrays a lack of trust of local election authorities and a lack of communication with them.

Unconscious bias training has become a popular approach to diversity education.

Raúl Castro stepped down in observance of the two-term limit for senior government and party officials that he himself mandated in 2011.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, set to replace Raul Castro as president of Cuba after sixty years of Castro rule, will be faced with the challenges of implementing economic reform and sidestepping regional isolation.

Over the last half-century, some $22 trillion has been spent on anti-poverty programs and yet the percentage of poor in this nation remains unchanged.

Whatever you think of any immigration policies or other issues surrounding this case, one thing is clear: Gorsuch faithfully applied fundamental constitutional principles and upheld the rule of law.

Cohen has claimed that because he is an attorney—for Trump and others—some of the seized files may be entirely off-limits to the government.

We have dealt with Russia’s intrusion for years—ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union.

President Donald Trump recently said he was open to returning to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but only if he could get a “substantially better” deal than his predecessor.

During the 1960s and ’70s, academic liberals, civil rights advocates, and others blamed the exodus on racism—”white flight” to the suburbs. However, since the ’70s, blacks have been fleeing some cities at higher rates than whites.

Democratic Party dominance in California doesn’t necessarily mean Californians have become more progressive or that progressive policies have worked.

Trump right to reconsider TPP even if allies resist renegotiation bid.

We must urgently grasp the nature of Russia’s goals.

Wendy Vitter, whom President Trump has nominated for a federal district court judgeship in Louisiana, refused to say whether she thought Brown v. Board of Education was rightly decided.

Stahl’s claim that the state of public schools has gotten better simply doesn’t hold up to the data. It fact, DeVos is entirely correct to point out that public school outcomes have not meaningfully improved.

President Xi Jinping was smart to strike a softer tone on trade earlier this month.

Assad would rather rule over the ruins of Syria than allow for a peaceful transition to democracy.

Besides our individual biological make up, colour perception is less about seeing what is actually out there and more about how our brain interprets colours to create something meaningful.

Misophonia is a neurophysiological condition in which people have a disproportionately negative reaction to specific sounds.