As our understanding of the consequences of drug abuse has improved, so has America’s relationship with drugs changed. From Nixon to Trump, the ‘War on Drugs’ continues, but who is really the victim at the end of it...
In 2019, anyone over the age of 21 can legally buy cannabis in Denver, Colorado but if you were to hotbox it across states lines, you could end up being arrested for blazing up in Nebraska. So why is there one law for one state and another law for the next? Isn’t the...
When the founders of the United States went to school, their class schedules looked a little different from yours. So what did they learn from the past and how did they use that knowledge to create the US...
Around the year 1500, in a region of the Yucatan Peninsula between the Aztec and Mayan empires, a girl who came to be known as Malitzen was born. She rose from slavery to become a Spanish noblewomen but was she a traitor to her...
Democracies are based on the idea that power is held in the hands of the people, and that everyone has an equal right to freedom and self-governance. So how could democratic societies claim to support equality while holding humans in...
