Just Say No ... to the War on Drugs

Every day, more Americans agree the War on Drugs has failed and must change. The Smarter Sentencing Act will save billions of dollars and ease dangerous overcrowding in prisons by reducing sentences for non-violent drug offenders. It will also help strengthen communities and reduce racial injustice. Ask your members of Congress to pass the Smarter Sentencing Act. It's a vital first step. A Eugene Jarecki Digital Short. Featuring the Turf Feinz/YAK Films.
 

Drug Tests Must Now Include Females

The National Institutes of Health announced that it will require scientists to test new drugs on both male and female animals. Until now, most early trials have been conducted on males. Judy Woodruff joins Dr. Janine Clayton of National Institutes of Health and Phyllis Greenberger of Society for Women's Health Research to discuss the past problems driving the decision.

The Ancient Roots of the 1%

Heather Pringle Science
Don't blame farming. Inequality got its start among resource-rich hunter-gatherers

Who Needs the Supreme Court?

Emily Bazelon Slate
Gay marriage might just become the law of the land without ever heading back to Justice Kennedy.

Colleges Are Buying Stuff They Can’t Afford and Making Students Pay For It

Michelle Chen The Nation
Should we care that our college experiences are being funded by borrowed money? In recent years, financial markets have become increasingly entangled in budget decisions, and often those decisions have little to do with educating students. In many cases, schools are just borrowing for huge capital investments that help the college market itself, such as gleaming new football stadiums and shiny dorm buildings.

What Is the New Populism?

Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future
This new populism is not something we have to invent. It is already stirring. It is Occupy Wall Street putting Gilded Age inequality at the center of our political debate. It’s exploited low-wage workers protesting fast-food restaurants in over 150 cities. Moral Monday protests against the assault on voting rights and the vulnerable mobilizing thousands in North Carolina and are spreading to Georgia and South Carolina.

Social Security Threatens to Close All Field Offices

Jim Campana Labor Notes
In order to destroy public institutions, like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public education and the Post Office, corporate America must first destroy the support they enjoy with the working class. One way to do this is to de-fund them or make them difficult and frustrating to access.