Supporters say the measure would help combat the state’s epidemic of painkiller abuse, but polls have fluctuated wildly, and opponents are seizing on a controversial video to question their true intentions.
A coalition of political figures from around the world, including Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general…
The news: Breathe easy, potheads of Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love is about to become the largest in the country to decriminalize marijuana.

Politics, if we take politics to mean the shaping and discussion of issues, concerns and laws that foster the common good, is no longer the business of our traditional political institutions.

aaaGoldBarsThe profit motive fogs the thinking of free-market advocates. The Economist gushes, “Take a bow, capitalism…

It’s time to get rid of the United States’ racist policing double-standards.

When protests erupted in Ferguson, Mo., after the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown…

Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and along the U.S.-Mexico border may seem to suggest that race has returned as the signature issue in American politics.
The Central American Integration System (SICA) was formed in 1991 and is a regional organization which includes the States of Belize, Costa Rica…

The case for reparations made by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has engendered conversations across the region and diaspora.

In Concourse Village in the Bronx, Sylvester Donkor, left, and Ataa Serwaa, immigrants from Ghana, waiting for a cab to church. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

The libertarian’s jeremiads about creeping tyranny often seem the ravings of a paranoid.