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Dave Wright, a Trump supporter based in Decatur, Illinois, was sick and tired of Facebook. A video he had posted in September of a woman reportedly being arrested for not wearing a mask was flagged for spreading misinformation, and last week during the election, a screengrab he shared hinting at …

UPDATE: New Jersey Public Question 1 passed on Tuesday, which means cannabis has been legalized for recreational use in New Jersey. “Marijuana legalization is long overdue in New Jersey, where arrests for possession kept increasing while other states enacted sensible systems of taxation and regulation,”said Kassandra Frederique, Executive Director of …

This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. At this point, there’s no question: researchers, investors, and stakeholders agree that psychedelics will be legal as pharmaceuticals in the next decade. The FDA has already granted both MDMA, the …

Social distancing protocols have made actions such as exposing oneself to horrified observers more difficult, if not impossible. But if nothing else, the pandemic is testament to the indefatigability of the human spirit, and when there is a will, there is a way. Famed legal analyst, The Run of His …

O n May 27th, the second day of mounting national outrage over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the president of America’s largest evangelical university decided it was the perfect time to blast out a tweet featuring the crudest of racial imagery. “I was adamantly opposed to the …

Since May 2020, youth organizers across the country have been mobilizing against police brutality and working for systemic change in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Some of them had organized for social justice before, but many of them took to the streets for the first time and without an …

Tapes of the grand jury inquiry into the police killing of Breonna Taylor were released Friday, October 2nd, one week after just one ex-cop was charged in the case, the Louisville Courier Journal reports. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron submitted the nearly 15 hours of tapes after an unidentified grand …

In times of trouble, the Dalai Lama’s story is one that bears repeating. The hardships include being plucked from his peasant parents as a toddler and ensconced in a spooky old palace, where he was tasked with relearning nearly every ounce of the knowledge he had managed to sponge up …

Joshua Steen wasn’t particularly surprised when he saw his friend Ronnie McNutt, 33, on Facebook Live on August 31st. “He often used a livestreaming platform as his form of therapy,” Steen tellsRolling Stone about his friend, who he met during a community theater production of Footloose and with whom he …

Since Jeffrey Epstein‘s death under mysterious circumstances last summer, conspiracy theorists of all stripes have been making hay with it, connecting any and all people who have ever been directly or indirectly associated with him to any and all criminal cases of the past 40 years. So it was only …