The Worst Elements Trump Just Can’t Quit
BY NATHAN RILEY | In raising the alarm about the threat of Islamist terrorism, President Donald Trump had perhaps no more potent symbol of its randomness than images of vehicles plowing into...
View ArticleDemocrats of New Stripes
BY NATHAN RILEY | Kiss the 1990s goodbye should be the wish of anyone who wants American politics to shift course. Democrats must overcome their fear of being labeled “too liberal, too long.” Simply...
View ArticleNot the Time for a Constitutional Convention
BY NATHAN RILEY | Vote against the constitutional convention this November. The most basic reason: it is scarcely a year since Bernie Sanders showed that a resurgent left wants sweeping reforms, but...
View ArticleDrug Reformers Declare Solutions Must Be Sweeping
BY NATHAN RILEY | Activists from across the globe gathered in Atlanta October 11-14 to plot strategy for defanging drug prohibition in the United States. The conference, called by the Drug Policy...
View ArticleNo New Money, No New Ideas in Trump’s Opioid Response
BY NATHAN RILEY | Donald Trump’s declaration of a public health emergency to end the epidemic of opioid overdose deaths wraps itself in virtue, but avoids the burning question about the nation’s drug...
View ArticleMurder Prosecutions of Low-Level Sellers Stymie Public Health
BY NATHAN RILEY | Drug law reformers are pushing back against a new wave of counterproductive cruelty from prohibition-minded law enforcement seeking to prevent drug use with harsh sentences. Drug...
View ArticleLegalizing Pot is Sound Policy and Social Justice
BY NATHAN RILEY | Legalizing recreational pot is a matter of justice and sound public policy. Starting January 11, the State Assembly begins laying the groundwork for legalizing such use in New York....
View ArticleAdvocates Press de Blasio to Release Safe Drug Use Study
BY NATHAN RILEY | Advocates are demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio release a city health department feasibility study on safer consumption spaces where users take their drugs in the presence of an...
View ArticleCuomo Needs to Step Up on Discovery Reform
BY NATHAN RILEY | As anyone who spent three minutes listening to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s reelection message knows, crime is down. New York City last year had the fewest murders since modern statistical...
View ArticleCynthia Nixon’s Impressive Launch
BY NATHAN RILEY | Cynthia Nixon successfully opened her campaign denouncing Governor Andrew Cuomo as a man who cares more “about headlines and power” than about people. “New York is my home. I have...
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