Search Content
Did Decriminalization Boost Drug Deaths in Oregon?: Recent Research Finds 'No Evidence' That It Did, Undermining a Key Claim by Critics of That Policy Feb. 14, 2024
Oregon is considering legislation that would recriminalize low-level drug possession, reversing a la... Read More
Facts on Gun-related Death in America Feb. 23, 2023
Last week, there was another mass shooting — this one on the campus of Michigan State Universi... Read More
DeSantis Passes the Kool-Aid ... to Republicans Dec. 20, 2022
Ron DeSantis has earned some recent notoriety for casting doubt on the COVID-19 vaccines and attacki... Read More
In the End, Sweden Did It Right Feb. 22, 2022
What if two years ago, when COVID-19 first hit these shores, our politicians hadn't panicked? What i... Read More
Releasing Anxieties on Roadways Leads to Deadly Consequences Feb. 04, 2022
Pop Quiz. Answer the following questions as honestly as you can: Do you regularly drive over the spe... Read More
Biden Doubles Down on a Lethal Anti-Drug Strategy: Prohibition Has Driven Opioid-Related Deaths to Record Levels Dec. 22, 2021
For more than a century, the U.S. government has failed to prevent Americans from consuming politica... Read More
Pretending Biden Is Blameless on COVID Dec. 22, 2021
As the bad news surges and throbs again about the coronavirus, you can easily sense the lack of poli... Read More
Too Much Faith in Models Jul. 15, 2020
Between 2 million and 3 million Americans will die! That was the prediction from "experts"... Read More
Who Sent COVID-19 Positive Patients Into Nursing Homes? May. 15, 2020
On a multicountry trip to South America, President Ronald Reagan couldn't restrain himself from the ... Read More
Optimists vs. Pessimists on the Coronavirus May. 03, 2020
Ted Williams was one of the greatest hitters baseball has ever seen, and his theories of how to succ... Read More
Puzzling Over African American COVID Deaths Apr. 24, 2020
The numbers are preliminary, but it seems that African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at alarming... Read More
Castro Knows That Criminalizing Immigration Is a Failure Jun. 30, 2019
When Julian Castro advocated repealing the law making it a crime to cross the border without permiss... Read More
Smoke and Fears May. 08, 2019
Cancer deaths overall in the United States dropped more than 25% between 1991 and 2016, but the good... Read More
The Surprising Truth About 'Gun Deaths' Dec. 16, 2018
If you're thinking of venturing outside your home today, the news may change your mind. "Gun deaths ... Read More
Alcohol and Opioids Are Different Risks Nov. 29, 2018
Is alcohol really "the most dangerous drug"? That's what Governing magazine said on a cover, adding,... Read More
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan? Nov. 29, 2018
The old peacenik slogan was, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Today, the question is, "Wha... Read More
Overdose Deaths Are the Product of Drug Prohibition Apr. 12, 2018
During Prohibition, drinkers never knew what they would get when they set out to slake their thirst.... Read More
Nature's Great Bird Migration Under Threat by You-Know-Who Apr. 05, 2018
You could call it the Nebraska bird eclipse. At the first dart of morning light, so many sandhill cr... Read More
Unnecessary Loss of Life Sep. 30, 2015
War is nasty, brutal and costly. In our latest wars, many of the casualties suffered by American tro... Read More
A 9/11 Book the World Needs to Read May. 08, 2014
In 39 years of professional journalism, I have never come across something more shocking than what I... Read More
