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Safer Solutions: When will the facts about tobacco harm reduction trickle down to veterans?

While veterans’ smoking rates have declined, smoking remains a persistent, deadly issue: About 22 percent of veterans are ...
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Confronting the Women’s Incarceration Crisis: Reentry and Long-Term Success

This is part of the “Confronting the Women’s Incarceration Crisis” series, where we examine what is driving more women into ...
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Safer Solutions: Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Doesn’t Swap One Drug for Another

About 50 percent of Americans used a prescription medication in the past 30 days—from short-term antibiotics to emergency ...
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Sewer politics degrade presidential dignity

On a recent flight back from Washington D.C., I killed some time by watching cable news—something I almost never do unless I am on a plane—and one segment centered around President Donald Trump’s ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: Why don’t we have electric airplanes?

A commonly proposed solution to the carbon emissions problem is to replace as much fossil fuel use as possible with electric ...
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In defiance of history, states consider insurance price controls

There is nothing new under the sun,” according to the book of Ecclesiastes, and that’s especially true for bad public policy.
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California’s Debt Crisis Is Brewing Again

California hasn’t turned the corner on its growing government debt problems — and it’s not even really trying. It’s been 13 ...
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The Digital Services Act Could Kill AI Overviews in the EU and Damage American Companies

Last month, a coalition of European media companies filed a formal complaint against Google’s AI Overviews—which summarize ...
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Clearing Homeless Encampments May Reduce Public Disorder, but It Doesn't Keep Communities Safer

Article: Pranav Padmanabhan et al., “Association of Involuntary Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness and Crime in ...
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Permitting Reforms Proposed Under the 119th Congress

Permitting reform has been an ongoing policy issue for multiple Congresses now. While the 118th Congress adopted some ...
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From Victim to Defendant: How Justice Falls Short for Women

Authors Table of Contents Media Contact For general and media inquiries and to book our experts, please contact: [email protected] For decades, the justice system has failed to recognize how deeply ...
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California regulation frenzy risks burgeoning AI industry

SACRAMENTO — California has recently enacted a sweeping package of AI laws, positioning itself as a leader in state-level AI regulation. The focus is on safety, transparency and specific use-cases ...