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Based on the rhetoric, America’s war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation’s readiness to turn the talk into reality. The economic case for expanding treatment, especially amid a …

I am pleased, but not surprised, that the new survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows that atheists know just as much — if not quite a bit more – about religion than do religious people in general. The simple truth is this; the more someone …

Apparently everyone’s pissed about the health care bill, but in a scary kind of way. Now we’ve been here before and it goes like this: For the media, anger is only OK if it’s targeted at people they hate, i.e. corporations, conservatives, the daddy who never loved them, etc. For …