Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Making Mushrooms Legal

By Aída Chávez The Nation After 50 years of prohibition, some states are starting to challenge the federal government’s policy on psychedelic drugs. In November 2020, voters in Oregon passed a pair of historic drug policy ballot measures. The first was Measure 110, a proposal to decriminalize low-level […]

How the Drug War Dies

By Maia Szalavitz The Nation Just a few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged. Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson was raised by a single mother in a Baltimore housing project. […]

How far to the right can Republicans go?

By Damon Linker, The Week Abortion bans are testing Americans’ tolerance for far-right policies. As a political centrist who’s voted exclusively for Democrats (or rather, against Republicans) for 18 years now, I’ve been making “popularist” arguments since long before the term was coined. For those unfamiliar with it, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research

By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com The Russian government held a press conference Thursday claiming that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military ‘bioweapons’ research program in Ukraine However the allegations were branded a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in […]

Russell Brand RESPONDS To Smear Pieces

Actor, comedian and podcaster Russell Brand has lately come under fire from the establishment press in his native England, labeled a “conspiracy theorist” who spreads misinformation and makes wild accusations without providing supporting evidence. Now Brand has used his platform to strike back, posting a video refuting the […]