On June 29, the Washington, DC Council voted to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products—a designation that includes vapes as…
From the get-go, sex worker activists knew nothing good would come from FOSTA, a 2018 law that formally makes online…
On June 4, Chandran Vithushan, a young man in Sri Lanka, was buried by his family. He had been arrested…
A six-year effort to decriminalize syringe possession for drug use in New York is finally gaining ground. On June 7,…
By every measure, the global drug war has failed. It has failed to decrease drug use and sales. Drug-involved overdose…
George Floyd’s final breaths on May 25, 2020, gasping out “I can’t breathe,” led millions of people in the US…
The first re-election bid of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner—probably the figure most associated with the “progressive prosecutor” movement—was closely…
People who use drugs weren’t given a voice in Vancouver’s most recent step towards decriminalization, according to a coalition of…
He thought it was a clap of thunder as it echoed through the humid air between the river and mountains…
New York City will become the largest jurisdiction in the country to curtail police officers’ use of qualified immunity—a legal…