Alexander Lekhtman 
What Kentucky, Mississippi Gubernatorial Results May Mean for Medicaid
Citizens in Kentucky and Mississippi voted in their gubernatorial elections November 5, in two ...
Why Private Prisons Are at the Center of a Pennsylvania Prosecutor Race
The involvement of for-profit in managing jails and prisons in one Pennsylvania county could ...
Women Are Disproportionately Held in Jails Rather Than Prisons, Increasing Harms
More women are being held in local jails than in state prisons, according to ...
Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Expunge Millions of Cannabis Convictions Faster
Has Bernie Sanders been reading Filter? Last week we asked how far all the ...
As Buttigieg Visits a Dispensary, How Far Will 2020 Dems Go for Cannabis Justice?
On October 23, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ...
What Drug Policies Did the “Bernie’s Back” Rally Crowd Want?
Senator Bernie Sanders took the stage at a rally of about 25,000 supporters in ...
Four Northeast Governors Say They’ll Prioritize Cannabis Justice—Activists Will Hold Them to Account
Four northeastern governors met for a summit on cannabis and vaping in New York ...
2020 Democrats’ Misguided Call to Jail Pharma Execs for Opioids
Several candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination spoke about opioids Tuesday during the ...
How Psychedelic Exceptionalism Harms Drug Users
Do you feel that some drugs are inherently worse for the user than others?” ...
Murders of Homeless People in NYC’s Chinatown Reflect a Crisis Decades in the Making
On Saturday October 5, a man attacked five people, four of whom were homeless, ...
