https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to war on drugs en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/28/road-decriminalization-psychoactive-drugs-runs-through-religion The city of Hazel Park, Michigan made national headlines last week after its city council voted unanimously to decriminalize entheogens , or naturally occurring psychoactive drugs consumed for religious reasons. Substances like psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and ibogaine remain illegal at… Mon, 28 Mar 2022 03:06:03 EDT Brad Stoddard a2f12eb2-4bf2-4f1e-ba1d-257d589e2f33 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/09/15/reconsidering-reagans-racism-trump-culmination-gippers-gop Thirty-five years before Donald Trump descended the escalator of his gaudy Manhattan skyscraper to launch his presidential run by way of a racist attack on Mexicans—“they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists,” he raged—another presidential aspirant traveled to the… Tue, 15 Sep 2020 01:05:37 EDT Neil J. Young 9cb77452-0105-4b6f-ad53-8a1bd98ee5b1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/14/fragility-our-reality-conversation-brain-behind-pbs-miniseries-neuroscience When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of this reflexivity is a funny kind of loop: studying the brain tells you about being a self; being a self offers up questions about the… Wed, 14 Oct 2015 02:32:48 EDT Michael Schulson e121463f-8716-4dbf-a16d-8a4e12e974c6 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/22/never-mind-libertarians-heres-pragmatist-moment By the third paragraph of Robert Draper’s recent New York Times Magazine cover story, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” one starts to suspect that the answer is no. It’s at this point that Lisa Kennedy Montgomery has finished comparing… Fri, 22 Aug 2014 01:03:07 EDT Eric C. Miller 901f2668-05c4-43c1-bdb9-e07aaa779d99 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/15/california-inmates-protest-abuse-long-term-solitary-confinement In US prisons, stays in solitary confinement often exceed years and turn into tens of years. “The reality is stunning,” says Markle Downton, “and it certainly helps to makes sense of why people who are incarcerated in California feel the situation is dire enough that it’s necessary to put their lives on the line to call for reform.” Mon, 15 Jul 2013 05:35:41 EDT Sarah Sentilles 88a158aa-8bcc-456f-8596-7fdcd88c555d https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/20/are-muslims-nuts For many Americans, the Muslim world is dangerous. It is a place mired in the thick sludge of the past, peopled by exotic and prickly foreigners who, at any slight however real or perceived, fly off into a mad rage. It is irrationality’s last refuge, a museum shop of medieval horrors that has somehow survived the rest of the planet’s transition to the 21st century. Recent events might seem to only confirm this assessment. A fair-minded observer might plausibly ask, “Are Muslims nuts?” Although, to be entirely fair-minded, for the thousands who did protest against “The Innocence of Muslims,” well over a billion and a half did not. Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:09:49 EDT Haroon Moghul 7a0ce8ff-b6f6-4dc5-82fd-7203c7ac8a14 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/06/23/high-drugs-breaking-just-say-no-addiction Forget the war on drugs. As Jimmy Carter recently argued in the New York Times, it is time to call off this wasted effort. Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:55:19 EDT Gary Laderman fe747168-1fb6-4c46-afe4-41395fcf8b94 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/05/03/things-gop-wont-about-ron-paul How the Tea Party favorite diverges from Republican orthodoxy. Tue, 03 May 2011 01:12:34 EDT Julie Ingersoll 0d712d65-4613-4645-aff0-cc4d5267da15 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/03/03/extra-terrestrial-kitsch-capricology-4 Among other clues to this sci-fi opera, our Caprica watchers took particular note of a bobbleheaded bull on the dashboard of a Tauron killer. What can we learn from the possibility that Capricans can be as kitsch-obsessed, cigarette-addicted, and as reckless with civil liberties as earthlings can be? Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:59:46 EST Anthea Butler a3f4d663-7ca1-44d2-a1a6-ed629b0a1fdd https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/23/mexicos-war-saint-death The Mexican government has demolished dozens of shrines to Santa Muerta, claiming that the worship of this skeletal woman in a white cloak is a “narco-cult.” As resistance grows, so does this new religious movement. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:46:41 EDT Joseph Laycock 72d68e04-2b01-4ecb-9142-4bad713efcc6 https://religiondispatches.org/2008/09/22/rd10q-mlk-and-rhetoric-freedom A social movement comes into being when a group of people come to see themselves as sharing a common identity, a common story, and a common destination. How did Dr. King’s rhetoric inform the consciousness of the civil rights era? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:38:43 EDT Gary Selby aded433e-3bca-40f1-85f8-222b0db6cb26