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For more than 50 years, America’s official position on marijuana has been seen as nonsensical. By classifying pot as a...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that committed the Justice Department to “rescheduling” marijuana. Although the order won’t...

Donald Trump has now installed descriptive plaques under all the portraits that line his “Presidential Walk of Fame” in the...

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On Tuesday afternoon, the risk of wildfire in northeastern Colorado had risen high enough that Xcel Energy, the state’s largest...

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The cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco has made a career of rescuing history from the cleavages of memory. One set...

The gunman who shot up a classroom on Brown University’s campus on Saturday, killing two students and wounding nine others,...

Few professionals suffer more from ageism than athletes. Heaven forfend an NFL star or an Olympian become 40ish on the...

Warren Buffett has long been known and admired around the world for doing something that is, at its essence, mundane. He...

In the early 1960s, American childhood was not what it is today. Many children spent hours playing unsupervised in the...

To celebrate the start of a nationwide ban on social media for kids under the age of 16, the Australian...

Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a Syrian desert...

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