Our Nearly Century-long Experiment In Banning Marijuana

The Intelligence Community Is So Vast That More People Have Top Secret Clearance Than Live In Washington. The U.s. Will Spend More On The War In Afghanistan This Year, Adjusting For Inflation, Than We Spent On The Revolutionary War, The War Of 1812, The Mexican-american War, The Civil War And The Spanish-american War Combined.

Americans Have Called On Moderates In Muslim Countries To Speak Out Against Extremists, To Stand Up For The Tolerance They Say They Believe In. We Should All Have The Guts Do The Same At Home.

The World Spends $40 Billion A Year On Pet Food.

Neither Western Donor Countries Like The U.s. Nor Poor Recipients Like Cameroon Care Much About Africans Who Are Poor, Rural And Female

The Way You Get Leaders To Care About Issues Of Conscience Is To Apply Political Pressure. It's Less A Question Of Persuading Leaders Directly And More Trying To Build A Social Movement That Holds Their Feet To The Fire.