Royal College of Physicians: Vaping Can 'Prevent Almost All The Harm From Smoking'
The British medical group endorses e-cigarettes as a harm-reducing alternative to the conventional kind.
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Indian Merchant Gets Three Years of 'Rigorous Imprisonment' for Selling E-Cigarettes
In the name of public health, Punjab treats vaped nicotine as an unapproved medicine.
A Soda Tax As Found Money
Hillary Clinton joins Philadelphia's mayor in playing down the levy's paternalistic purpose.
Is it a "Lie" That More People Carrying Guns Can Lead to Less Crime?
The Nation relies on ad hominem attacks on one gun researcher, not facts.
Oklahoma and Nebraska Try to Revive Their Challenge to Legal Pot in Colorado
The two states want to join appeals filed by landowners and sheriffs.
FBI's Creepy Intiative to Turn Imams Into Informants
The Shared Committees Responsibility program is surveillance masquerading as community service for Muslims.
Ted Cruz and John Kasich Are Teaming Up to Try to Stop Donald Trump at a Contested Convention
Two late night press releases reveal the unusual state of the GOP primary race.
Ban on THC-Infused Gummy Bears Advances in Colorado
The bill also covers candy shaped like fruit or people but not moons, stars, hearts, or marijuana leaves.
Early Lessons From Marijuana Legalization in Colorado
A new report from the state Department of Public Safety considers the consequences.
Reason Debate On DAPA
Two libertarian scholars go toe-to-toe on Obama's immigration executive order
Finding the Middle Ground in Debate Over GMO Regulation
Should government policy be to favor or oppose GMOs? No.
Donald Trump Is Exactly Who He Seems to Be
New campaign manager suggests the candidate's persona is an act.
Earth Day 2016: Paris Climate Agreement Signed
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
Millennials Hurt By Occupational Licensing Laws
Young people entering the workforce without a degree or a "rent-seeking" license face low wages, if they can even find a job.
U.N. Drug Policy Meeting's Banal Consensus Masks Encouraging Disagreements
"Putting people first" might mean legalizing drugs, or it might mean beheading drug dealers.
Obama Again Breaks Promise to Call Armenian Genocide a 'Genocide'; Hillary Right Behind Him
With their favorite candidates terrible on the issue, genocide-recognition activists are no longer using it as litmus test
Amendment Could Save the Vaping Industry From Prohibitive FDA Regulations
The reported version of an appropriations bill would change a crucial cutoff date.
What the World Can Learn From Colorado's Marijuana Experience
A new report suggests some tentative observations about the consequences of legalization.
Why Do We Let Saudis Dictate American Transparency, and What's the Matter With the Northeast? Anthony Fisher Joins The Fifth Column Podcast
There's just not enough time to fill in the "Some Idiot Wrote This" segment
Watch Matt Welch Praise the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill on Red Eye
Tune into Fox News at 3 a.m. ET for electroshock wristbands, Snapchat Marley blackface, Bernie's commune ejection, and more.
Great News! Harriet Tubman Will Replace Andrew Jackson on the Front of the $20 Bill
Alexander Hamilton, meanwhile, will stay on the $10 note.
The Sandy Hook Gun Lawsuit Panned and Praised by Sanders Has a Trial Date
What facts can the plaintiffs discover to substantiate their broad reading of "negligent entrustment"?
Bernie Sanders and the 'Right to Sue' Gun Suppliers
Has he changed his mind, or is he trying to have it both ways?
New York's Stingy Voting Rules Will Hurt Independents, Bernie Sanders, and Probably Donald Trump
Major parties going to absurd length to beat back unaffiliated voters with a stick
After We Audit the Pentagon, Maybe We Should Audit the Audit
The Defense Department can't account for how it spends its money.
Bribery Charges Indict New York City's Unconstitutional Gun Restrictions
A Brooklyn man is arrested for paying cops to "expedite" pistol permit applications, a business created by arbitrary regulations.
President Obama's DAPA Order Oversteps His Immigration Powers
Obama's action is good policy, bad law, and terrible precedent.
Yes, Obama's Executive Action Deferring Deportation for Millions of Immigrants Is Constitutional
The immigration laws whose enforcement the president is restricting are themselves unconstitutional.
San Francisco Tries to Square Progressivism with Housing Progress
The only solution is more housing. But people want the city the way it is: unaffordable.
The FBI's Orwellian Little Program To Catch Would-Be Jihadis
The Shared Responsibility Committees program will force ordinary Muslims to spy on their own communities
The DAPA Debacle Shows Obama Has Failed as a Unifier
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in the backdrop of a deeply divided country
'Keep in mind Hillary Clinton ran against Barack Obama's sentencing reform in 2008'
Matt Welch talks about the 'ugliness' of Clintonian crime politics on Rev. Al Sharpton's PoliticsNation
Four Progressive Minimum Wage Myths Debunked
Democrats are just making things up to advance their job-killing cause.
76-Year-Old Asks SCOTUS to Overturn Life Sentence for 37 Pot Plants
Lee Carroll Brooker, a victim of Alabama's habitual offender law, argues that his punishment violates the Eighth Amendment.
The CDC Keeps Lying About Adolescent Vaping and Tobacco Use
The agency bizarrely counts tobacco-free, noncombustible e-cigarettes as a kind of tobacco.
The Lemonade Is $150. The Pot Is Free.
Exchanging marijuana "gifts" for "donations" is not, alas, legal in Washington, D.C.
The NY Primary, Minimum Wage, Fracking, Chicago's Allegedy Racist Cops, and the Speech Police: The Fifth Column Podcast Returns
Matt Welch, Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan try to figure out who's the real New Yorker
Bill Clinton's Shameful Crime Politics: Watch Matt Welch Talk to Al Sharpton Sunday at 8 a.m. ET
MSNBC's PoliticsNation will feature some blunt talk about New York politics
The Minnesota Vikings' New Stadium is Actually a Jawa Sandcrawler
It's the most plausible explanation for the ballooning costs.
Runaway Farm Subsidies and Diet Guideline Fights: Federal Food Policy Is a Mess
Two recent examples illustrate deep and broad problems.
Bernie Sanders' Ongoing Argument With Himself About Gun Violence Liability
He has turned against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act but talks like he still supports it.
Hillary Clinton Just Turned the Democratic Party Into the Party of the $15 an Hour Minimum Wage
The Democratic frontrunner proves she's willing to take a dangerous, irresponsible gamble with the economy.
Exchanging Marijuana 'Gifts' for 'Donations' Is Not, Alas, Legal In D.C.
Creative entrepreneurs try to fill the gap between legal demand and illegal supply.
Sanders Misleadingly Connects 'Mass Incarceration' to Pot Busts
Clinton minimizes her role in advocating longer sentences and exaggerates her role in trying to shorten them.
