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A potential policy change could have big benefits for marijuana businesses. Federal law requires all research in federally funded laboratories to use only marijuana from a single facility located in Oxford, Mississippi. Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service/Getty Images Li Zhou…

Noem wanted to look decisive. That’s not what happened. Gov. Kristi Noem recently wrote about killing a puppy. It’s not going over well. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Li Zhou is a politics reporter at Vox, where she covers Congress and…

Derek Thompson on what the end of monoculture could mean for American democracy. Getty Images Is damn near everything a cult now? That’s a glib distillation of an interesting idea I recently encountered. The basic thesis was that the internet…

Campus protests for Gaza may be the biggest of the 21st century. George Washington University students camp out on campus to demand that their university divest from Israel and call for a ceasefire in Gaza, on April 25, 2024, in…

The crackdown on protesters at Columbia and elsewhere lays bare the challenge of balancing academic freedom with student safety. Columbia University students participate in an ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on their campus following last week’s arrest of more than 100 protesters,…

The rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa. Pierre Poilievre speaks at a protest against a Federal Carbon Tax increase on March 27, 2024.…

What we know — and what we don’t — about the mass graves at Gaza hospitals. Gazan teams, civil defense, crime scene investigation, and forensics continue to carry out investigation at the scene after Israeli siege and attacks that destroyed…

Trump allies newly indicted in Arizona, testimony continuing in New York, and the Supreme Court hearing arguments in DC. Former US President Donald Trump exits his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on…

It’s unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they’ll just delay his trial so long that it doesn’t matter. Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Trump placed…

The justices already effectively gave Trump what he wants in his Supreme Court immunity case. Former President Donald Trump greets his own appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, ahead of the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S.…