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Oct 24 20165 minutes
A New Paradigm For Opioid Addiction: More Drugs
THE PHOTO WAS so startling that it almost seemed staged. In the driver’s seat, the man’s head is dropped back, his eyes closed, mouth agape, one hand draped on the steering wheel in front of him and the other in his lap. In the passenger seat, a woma
Oct 24 20162 minutes
4 Steps For The Next President
Racism should be a core concern for all Americans, in every area of our lives. Implicit bias—our subconscious associations of race—permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it. The next President must apply th
Oct 24 20161 minute
Our Addiction Crisis Can Be Solved—With Hardwork
The prescription-opioid epidemic is one of the most urgent public-health challenges of our time. Since 1999, overdose deaths have quadrupled, which parallels the quantity of opioids prescribed. The majority of prescription opioids that are being misu
Oct 16 20164 minutes
Nat Turner’s Confessions
The Birth of a Nation is a melodramatic revenge saga.
Oct 10 20167 minutes
The Killing Season Inside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s War On Drugs
AROUND 11 P.M. ON JULY 25, RESTITUTO Castro received an anonymous text message asking him to leave his house in northern Manila and go to the corner of the MacArthur Highway. Just hours earlier, the new Philippine President, 71-year-old Rodrigo Duter
Oct 10 20162 minutes
Seattle Breaks New Ground On Opioids
Officials sanction public spaces for shooting heroin | “We need to do what the science tells us to do�?
Oct 1 20161 minute
How A Biotech Turned A Bust Into A Hit
Hands-on selling transformed anti-addiction drug Vivitrol into a success.
Aug 29 20161 minute
Ticker
Guantánamo sees biggest transfer Fifteen Guantánamo Bay detainees were sent to the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said Aug. 15. The largest single release under the Obama Administration reduced the total number of detainees at the military priso
Aug 22 20161 minute
The JonBenet Ramsey Case: A Timeline
The little girl’s shocking murder stunned the nation—and led investigators through nearly two decades of twists and suspects
Aug 8 20163 minutes
A Summer Of Bloodshed Threatens Europe’s Union
“WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF A CIVIL war.�? That’s how Patrick Calvar, head of France’s domestic-security agency, described the jihadist threat to his country in early summer. Just a few weeks later, a man drove a truck through crowds in Nice, killing 84 p
Aug 8 20161 minute
That ’70s Saga
A FEW DAYS AFTER BEING KIDNAPPED, IN February 1974, Patricia Hearst recorded a message to her family from the closet where she was held. “Today is Friday the eighth,�? she said, “and in Kuwait, the commandos negotiated the release of their hostages, a
Jul 25 20163 minutes
The Truth About Police Violence—And Who The Heroes And Villains Are Among All Of Us
I EXPLAIN MY PASSION FOR HISTORY TO MY FRIENDS BY quoting American philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.�? That simple concept of not drinking from the same carton of sour milk twice is the found
Jul 25 20161 minute
Then & Now
In 1980 actress Mackenzie Phillips joined her father, John Phillips (whom Mackenzie claimed she had an incestuous relationship with in her 2009 memoir High on Arrival), in rehab for an out-of-control cocaine habit that had gotten her fired from One D
Jul 4 20163 minutes
In Sports And More, Moscow Is Bending The Rules To Get Ahead
ON JUNE 17, A FEW DAYS AFTER Russian soccer fans began running riot at the European championships in France, Vladimir Putin was asked to comment on his countrymen’s behavior. With a half-smile, the Russian President played dumb. “I truly don’t unders
Jul 4 20161 minute
The Liberal Hypocrisy Of ‘Free Speech’
LIBERALS TEND TO THINK OF THEMSELVES as open-minded and supportive of free speech. But recent examples show otherwise—and prove that many on the left are not above using intimidation and harassment to silence dissenting voices. Consider the fight ag
Jun 27 20162 minutes
On Campuses, ‘Party Culture’ No Longer Excuses Rape
EARLIER THIS MONTH, BROCK ALLEN Turner, the ex–Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a fraternity dumpster, received two sentences. The first, from the Santa Clara County Superior Court, was light: six months i

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