Policy Archive
Archives for January 2019


Marijuana legalization: 1. Jeff Sessions: 0.


Jacob Hacker explains Medicare for America.


An internal email, sent two weeks after Trump started making the claim, asked agents for “any information” about what Trump was describing.


Body cameras are praised as a key police accountability tool. Some departments say they’re too expensive to use.


The Brazilian gun debate is déjà vu all over again — but in Brazil, Congress could limit expanded access.


The government is reopened for three weeks. What happens next?


Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss Tesla on the latest Pivot, plus Tucker Carlson, Fyre Festival and the MAGA teens from Covington Catholic.


Some shutdown sympathizers have argued it’s a good moment for evangelizing small government.


Browder’s incarceration and 2015 suicide called national attention to the ways the justice system irreparably alters the lives of people of color.


The new policy, forcing Central Americans to wait in Mexico while their cases are pending in the US, started Friday at the biggest crossing along the US-Mexico border.


She thanked them for their sacrifice.


They’re 20 percent more conservative than those appointed by George W. Bush, according to an analysis from the liberal group Demand Justice.


35 ways the shutdown is affecting America, from small-business loans to alcohol labels.


Trump tried to win over Nancy Pelosi without upsetting Ann Coulter — and he ended up losing support from both sides.

I spent a year writing about ER bills. Zuckerberg San Francisco General has the most surprising billing practices I’ve seen.