López Obrador, 70, who ran for president and lost twice before he was elected in 2018, has utterly transformed Mexico’s political landscape during his six years in office, turning a grassroots leftist social movement into the nation’s dominant political p...
In at least one seizure, a drug sniffing dog was used to ID the cannabis transport vehicle. (A dog was needed? Aren't those things marked?) Anyway, seizures so far have netted the checkpoints "at least 70 pounds of marijuana flower, concentrates, edibles, disposable vape pens, cartridges...
There’s growing evidence that preserving precious areas not only stops overfishing, it can lessen the impacts of climate change.
So, the wheel wasn’t just a simple invention that was made by cavemen. It was an innovation, along with the axle, that required several other inventions to come first before it could be created. Moreover, it was draft animals that created the necessity which lead to the development of t...
After Preval, gangs, politicians and business people extracted every dollar they could, said Francois Pierre-Louis, a professor of political science at Queens College at the City University of New York. “It was open house for gangs, drugs; the country, basi...
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Why do informal markets resist formalizing, even when the gains of doing so outweigh its costs in the long run? While a number of responses to this questio
There has always been a Latino presence in Costa Mesa, but there was a time when some Latinos may not have felt as welcomed in the city. As the Latino population grew in the mid-2000s, there was a backlash from local conservatives that “created a very hostile context not just for ...
Dave Bexfield of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease of the central nervous system, in 2006. Three years later he applied for a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health that involved a stem cell transplant. "My trial listed a...
New Economic Theories The Scottish economistAdam Smithwas one of the first to question the wisdom of this arrangement. His "Wealth of Nations" was published in 1776, the same year Britain's American colonies declared independence in response to high taxes and restrictive trade arrangements.9 ...