Early in 2007, the Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared war on his nation's drug traffickers. Since that time, drug-war-related violence...
Finding a Better Way to Fight
It's pretty much unanimous, at this point: The war on drugs has sucked us all down with it. Each year it accounts...
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A touching six-minute film about a man's best friend.
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When Wells Fargo stopped responding to a Philadelphia homeowner he read up on mortgage law and then used the bank's own playbook against it.
While America continues hemming and hawing over decriminalizing marijuana, Portugal's eminently sensible drug policy is thriving.
Almost 50 years after shooting down a plane in the Indo-Pakistani War, a pilot wrote a letter to his victim's daughter.
Less than two months after being initially discovered, the homeless man with the radio voice has been abandoned by his benefactors.
"Hector," it turned out, was his second try at a new name; he hadn’t had much luck with Nicholas.
Teaching students how to use a book index is great, but what about how to use a computer or do internet research?
Pledge a dollar for each smutty tweet with the Charity Swear Box.
Imagine that you're camping/hiking/frolicking in the woods and your GPS/flashlight/phone/(insert much needed electrical device here) dies. If you...
Louis C.K. channels misanthropic humor into delivering health care, water, and capital to people in need.
We've heard companies promise over and over to blanket American cities with wireless internet, so that you have a signal no matter where you...
The medical potential is great. The problem is MDMA's reputation.
Reason TV produced this six-minute video arguing for the legalization of moonshine. We regard home brewing as a fun, safe hobby that contributes...
Accepting gay marriage in language is more than just wordplay.
Eventually, according to my crystal ball, gay marriage will be legal everywhere....
New research says complaining about money and lives lost in our wars might be a terrible way to try and end them.
The future we mean, not the school. Controversial genius Ray Kuzweil, who has said that he plans to live forever-literally-will apparently be...
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