In the murky swamp waters of Louisiana, there lies an experiment that has been cooking up for the past 20 years. Created and conducted without the public's consent, it is an experiment, which if successful, could serve as the prototype for other states and other countries.
While US politicians are responding to changing opinions on recreational drug use, UK politicians are still stuck in the Dark Ages.
Uruguay passed an unprecedented bill that legalizes and regulates the production, distribution, and sale of marijuana for adult consumers. While other countries have claimed they want to end pointless 'War on Drugs' policies, thus far only Uruguay has taken the lead. Who's next?
Much of the left are increasingly happy to publicly savage Barack Obama and his administration, creating a division between themselves and those on the left who still have faith in the President. The topic that seems to marks the demarcation line between these two groups the most is Obama's use for unmanned predator drones. For some, it is a necessary evil that the President must use to face off the persistent threat of terrorism; for others it is a a fundamental betrayal of Obama's hope and change promise.
The Rolling Stone Article on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not a sympathetic to the suspected terrorist, yet it has caused a huge amount of controversy. The magazine was not saying, 'isn't it beautiful to be a terrorist?'; it was saying, 'even a terrorist can be beautiful'.
In a case of terrible poetic injustice, it was the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' that allowed George Zimmerman to go home to his family - the very same principle he denied Trayvon Martin. The truth is, in America, all black men are guilty until proven innocent.
Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane was forced to land in Vienna because of concerns he may have been carrying Edward Snowden. If this had happened to the President of the United States, it would most likely been grounds for war.
In the last month, popular mass protests have erupted in the streets of Brazil and Turkey in a manner that was not predicted by the same experts wrong-footed by the Arab Spring's arrival. Brazil and Turkey are not known for being repressive dictatorships. They are both free-market capitalist democracies. So what the hell is going on?
Just when it seemed that there was no stopping the unpaid internship, last week U.S. district court judge, William H. Pauley III, broke the mould by ruling that Fox Searchlight Pictures had fallen foul of the law with their use of unpaid interns in the production of Black Swan. Could this be the end of the unpaid internship?
