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“People are not commodities!” said Assemblyman Rob Bonta.

“We need to get our priorities straight,” Warren said.

“We can’t allow people to get sick,” President Donald Trump said from the Oval Office.

Specialization in education is just one way of optimizing the system for the future.

One Juul representative told high-school students that Juul products were “99% safer than cigarettes,” according to congressional testimony.

The move comes amid a surge of vaping-related hospitalizations.

Can treating addiction as a disease work better than treating it as a vice?

In Upheaval, Jared Diamond points out the sad facts of American voter turnout.

We are constantly trying to force the world to look like us — we need to move on.

Some nations can’t afford to make climate change a political issue.

It’s not about what guns people have. It’s who has them.

The federal government is exploring their options to keep up with the border crisis.

The premier hospitals tend to have the most superbugs — they also have the best experts.

A new survey suggests that free money isn’t as popular as you’d suppose.

Outrage culture is causing provocative issues to be pushed out of public discourse and important artworks to be literally white-washed. Teaching civil discourse at universities is key to sustaining the American experiment.

With the ivory trade on the decline, poachers have been capitalizing on a new, disturbing trend.

There are many reasons the student debt crisis is what it is, a few of them can be traced back to good ol’ Uncle Joe.

Activist and Big Think reader Roy M. Arce explains his idea for a new community policing team and how it can halt vicious cycles of PTSD and homelessness.

One report claims the trade is better pay for fewer jobs over all. Other reports disagree.

Conservative journalist Andy Ngo was attacked during marches in Portland on June 29.

Some of the world’s most prestigious universities aren’t in America.

A universal basic income is just one of Andrew Yang’s ideas to update capitalism for the 21st century.

A recent report compared the youth marijuana usage rates across the U.S. states, revealing some surprising differences.

Bernie Sanders reveals an even bigger plan than Elizabeth Warren, but does it go too far?

Andrew Yang argues that the Alaska Permanent Fund shows the path to implementing a nationwide universal basic income.

What are the plans, and are they enough?

Here’s how we stop a health crisis before it wreaks havoc on us.

That’s only counting revenues from taxes, fees, and licenses.

A new paper suggests gun licensing laws could be curbing violence in two main ways.

FDA guidelines say men can’t donate blood if they’ve had sex with another man in the past 12 months.