While the Controlled Substances Act generally gives the attorney general the authority to deschedule drugs, it also invokes treaty obligations that seem to preclude doing that with cannabis.
Progressive purity tests and Supreme Court wish lists
The senator's marijuana legalization plan is heavy on taxes, regulation, and executive power.
Bashing the rich may be good politics, but it’s terrible economics.
It’s far from clear how any of the reforms championed by AOC and Bernie will truly challenge the public education status quo.
Tonight's Democratic debate is the Massachusetts senator's moment to shine, if she can withstand attacks from her rivals.
New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou is a plaintiff in a lawsuit to stop a Habitat for Humanity housing project.
An argument against Bernie Sanders' health care plan in The New York Times.
Sanders has proposed a wealth tax to eliminate billionaires and fund his expensive domestic policy agenda.
For both good and ill, the Democratic field has moved so far to the left that 2012 Obama would have a hard time fitting in.
The socialist presidential candidate wants the federal government to take the lead in regulating rental prices and building new rental housing.
Perhaps the biggest difference is how much trust the candidates place in individuals.
Most Democrats agreed, though Andrew Yang argued that it made more sense to fund families directly.
Andrew Yang's crazy stunt, Joe Biden's real-time decomposition, and whether any candidates believe in limits to government.
The leading candidates are even more hostile to free trade than Trump.
From Joe Biden's call for high-speed rail to Kamala Harris' call for banning plastic straws, the Democratic presidential candidates pushed a hard-green agenda.
The public option comes with plenty of pitfalls.
Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and "hipster antitrust" scholars and activists say big tech companies need to be broken up. Economist Tom Hazlett says they're wrong.
Maybe. But it is hard to imagine Sanders endorsing Warren until and unless Warren defeats him consistently and by a significant margin in several early states.
For many of the president's biggest supporters, pushing back against "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is their raison d'être.
It’s not just obstructionist Republicans who won't buy into Medicare for All—it’s Democrats themselves.
Even as the senator calls Donald Trump a press-bullying authoritarian, he threatens press freedom in the name of preserving "independent" media.
Plus: The root of Twitter toxicity, the truth about the DOJ's attack on Backpage, and more...
We're vastly more interested in the upcoming election than we were in 2016. We're also convinced neither party represents us. What could go wrong?
Sanders' plan takes aim at every part of the justice system, including typical Sanders targets like private prisons and corporate "profiteers."
By nearly every measure, Americans are getting richer and richer. This should be cause for celebration, not concern.
The progressive senator's Trumpian anti-Bezos take is part of career-long history of fantasizing about evil billionaires.
The progressive push to the left among presidential candidates will alienate most Democrats and independents, helping Donald Trump to a second term.
Republicans aren't the only ones who want to "lock 'em up"
Unlike many other policies proposed by Democratic presidential hopefuls, trade policy is something a new president can unilaterally impose.
A decade after Obamacare, the Democratic Party has embraced health care radicalism.
Never before have presidential candidates offered so many giveaways.
Most Democratic candidates are to the left not just of Americans but of their own party.
There's a risk that if Warren and Sanders do get their way, the sucking sound will be of talent and capital fleeing America for other jurisdictions where they will be treated better.
Politicians can’t repeal the laws of supply and demand.
But the campaign workers complaining about their union-negotiated salaries are being hypocritical too.
The cost of single-payer would dwarf the price of Obamacare.
Nonpartisan and center-left groups are casting doubt on the Vermont senator's revenue estimates.
How dangerous is the democratic socialist resurgence?
Plus: protests in Hong Kong intensify, Antifa at it again, and more...
The world doesn't owe you a dream college or a dream house or a dream job.
Tulsi Gabbard's defense of non-interventionism was electrifying. Tonight's fight between Biden and Sanders over capitalism and socialism will be, too.
The Vermont senator is clearly trying to outdo his main progressive rival, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
No, Sanders didn't say Warren is surging just because she's a woman.
Just 25 percent of Democratic voters want a candidate promising a "bold, new agenda," which is exactly what party and media elites will cram down their throats.
This guy wants to run the economy?
A discussion about the state of the party, as presidential debate season kicks off
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