I am with my friend Jeff as we drive to the airport to pick up Sugata. I only know him from his TED video, which has been watched a gazillion times and forwarded to me by various friends throughout the years. I have little expectation as I’ve become accustomed to meeting people and finding them far different than their online personas. Almost as if...
In 2001, in the midst of a heroin crisis, Portugal's government took the radical step of decriminalizing the possession and consumption of all illegal...
A recent study suggests that anti-cancer drugs in the US are significantly overpriced, and that even with research and development costs considered, these elevated...
A few weeks ago, Harper’s magazine interviewed former Richard Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman, who admitted that President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs was in...