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This Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug Laws

5/10/2024 • 62 min

Drug policy feels very unsettled right now. The war on drugs was a failure. But so far, the war on the war on drugs hasn’t entirely been a success, either. Take Oregon. In 2020, it became the first state in the nation to decriminalize hard drugs. It was a paradigm shift — treating drug-users as patients rather than criminals — and advocates hoped it would be a … Play episode

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Is Green Growth Possible?
Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to Build
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?
Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
The Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’
Matter of Opinion: Paul Krugman on Inflation, ‘Bad Vibes’ and 2024
The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals
Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?
What a Second Biden Term Would Look Like
How America’s Two Abortion Realities Are Clashing
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Beauty, Human Evil and the Idea of Israel
The Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Have Changed. America’s Policy Hasn’t.
Your Questions on Open Conventions, a Gaza Schism and Biden’s Chances
Here’s How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work
Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
Best Of: Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
Building the Palestinian State With Salam Fayyad
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‘Why Haven’t the Democrats Completely Cleaned the Republicans’ Clock?’
‘The Strongest Democratic Party That Any of Us Have Ever Seen’
‘I Have No Idea How This Ends. I’ve Never Seen It So Broken.’
A Republican Pollster on Trump’s Undimmed Appeal
Should Trump Be Barred From the Ballot?
How to Discover Your Own Taste
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Best Of: The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World
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How the Israel-Gaza Conversations Have Shaped My Thinking
India Is Transforming. But Into What?
A Different Path Israel Could Have Taken — and Maybe Still Can
‘This Is How Hamas Is Seeing This’
A Lot Has Happened in A.I. Let’s Catch Up.
Best Of: This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent.
The Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts
The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now
Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard?
What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand
An Intense, Searching Conversation With Amjad Iraqi
She Polled Gazans on Oct. 6. Here’s What She Found.
If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?
The Conflicted Legacy of Mitt Romney
The Jewish Left Is Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at Once
Israel Is Giving Hamas What It Wants
We Need Better Narratives About Gender
Meet the ‘Angry, Aggrieved’ New Right

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