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Mike Ludwig of Truthout: The resources spent on prosecution would be better spent on treatment and harm reduction.
A giant blue wave swept 2017's most important state elections Tuesday as Democrats won governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey.
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With housing costs at an all-time high in the US, the issue of federal assistance is increasingly relevant for middle- and low-income families. However, they won't find it in the proposed new GOP tax bill, which only offers housing-related tax cuts for the wealthy in the form of mortgage interest deductions. Activists are pushing instead for progressive housing programs, such as a renter's tax credit at the state level.
As we encompass the calamitous anniversary of Donald Trump's election, a peddler of shoddy food provides a fitting parable for the age. Here is protest, bad business, excuse-making, presidential bloviating and racism on the march, all in one box of bad pizza. Papa John's provides an allegory for this year.
Silicon Valley leaders propose a society in which personal freedoms are near absolute and government regulations wither away, writes Noam Cohen. In his book, Cohen discusses how these leaders tap into our yearning for a utopia made real through technology, while not fully understanding humanity itself.