Tag: Law

Black Protester Shows Nazi That Love Really Does Trump Hate

Aaron Courtney, an African-American man and high school football coach probably didn't plan on hugging a white supremacist last weekend - however, that's exactly what happened. Last week, hundreds of white nationalists and counter-protesters faced off in Gainesville, Florida during a speech by alt-right leader, Richard Spencer (Spencer's speech was quickly drowned out by chants of "Go home!"). At one point during the protest, a...

The Family Profiting From the Opioid Crisis Hides Behind Charity

America is facing an unprecedented public health crisis— opioid addiction and the subsequent loss of many lives. The prescription drug OxyContin has been attributed to many of these deaths. Amazingly, however, little is known about the proprietors of OxyContin— the Sackler family. Their secret? Calculated and lavish acts of philanthropy. America’s Opioid Crisis: a Public Health Issue of Epic Proportions A recent article published in the New...
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Can Three Tough Female Justices Transform Texas’ Abortion Laws?

On March 2nd 2016, the Supreme Court heard rousing oral arguments from three passionate female justices challenging Texas’s omnibus anti-abortion bill. The outcome of...

Want to Know Where Your Meat Comes From? Congress Doesn’t Think so

Ever wonder where your bacon, hamburger, or sirloin steak hails from? Well if you live in the US, you may just have to keep...

How Sick Children are Helping to Change Medical Marijuana Laws in the U.S.

Marijuana might not have the sordid reputation it once had, but it’s still illegal at a federal level and medical marijuana is only legal...

10 Things That Are Illegal in the US – While Semi-Automatic Weapons Aren’t

America, as we all know, is the land of the free. It’s so free, that in fact, if you want to own 40 semi-automatic assault...

This 12-Year-Old Epileptic Girl is Suing Jeff Sessions to Legalize Pot

Last year, Alexis Bortell's book advocating the legalization of medical marijuana was published and distributed by Amazon. There's nothing especially surprising about that: activists...