Author: Brad Friedman

Near the end of his first year in the White House, Donald Trump hosted an absurd episode of reality TV. Standing next to enormous stacks of blank paper in the Roosevelt Room, the President snipped a red ribbon symbolizing all the “red tape” he claimed to have cut since his inauguration. “For many decades an...

While delivering his first speech to Congress as President in February 2017, Donald Trump declared that “the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country.” Like any good propaganda, the new President’s assertion was, strictly speaking, accurate, even if it completely misrepresented the truth....

…And there’s nothing Donald Trump or Jeff Sessions can do about it. A recent national poll funded by Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a leading antilegalization group, found that just 16% of the respondents wanted current federal marijuana laws to remain unchanged. On the other hand, 83% of Americans polled agreed that cannabis should be legalized...