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Where Oregon stands in the drug war

As other states move to defelonize drug possession, Oregon still has harsh marijuana laws on the books. Drug Policy Alliance’s Ellen Flenniken discusses drug reform in our state and worldwide. Ellen Flenniken grew up in the small, rural town of Brenham, a ...

19 May 2016 - Emily Green
Cruel, inhuman and degrading: US policies on homelessness called out by UN

My organization, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, works to end homelessness in the United States. As the Law Center’s policy director, most people would expect me to be pounding the pavement here in Washington, D.C. – lobbying the admi ...

16 Apr 2014 - Jeremy Rosen
Crowd Control: Journalist Alan Weisman talks about the need to curb the global population

On Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. PST, the global population was 7.12 billion people, and our population keeps growing. Every four-and-a-half days, one million more children are born. UN officials predict that by 2100, there may be 10.9 billion of us. That would be wo ...

14 Jan 2014 - Rosette Royale