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legal cannabis
Dec. 24, 2019
California’s Legal Pot Industry Is Struggling Taxes, regulations, local bans, and illegal competition have all hampered legal cannabis outlets.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Are Ignoring Their Party’s Strongest Issue for 2020 Making it easier for corporations to poison children is unpopular. Trump has done so anyway. Democrats should make that a bigger issue.
By Eric Levitz
2018 midterms
Dec. 2, 2018
Total GOP Control in Washington Is About to End. What Did They Get Out of It? For two years Republicans have theoretically had the power to remake the federal government. How did that work out for them? It was a mixed bag.
By Ed Kilgore
EPA: Actually, a Little Radiation Might Be Good For You The Trump administration is moving to weaken rules related to radiation exposure.
By Adam K. Raymond
The Oral History of Four Loko “It almost felt like liquid hyperbole. It was insane on every level.”
By Maxine Builder
New EPA Chief Worries Trump’s Pro-Car-Pollution Plan Is Illegal But other administration officials believe the plan is legal — because Brett Kavanaugh will say that it is, when the issue reaches the Supreme Court.
By Eric Levitz
The EPA Is Hiding Proof That a Widely Used Chemical Causes Leukemia: Report Trump appointees are (reportedly) refusing to release a blockbuster EPA report — because industry lobbyists asked them not to.
By Eric Levitz
The Right (and Wrong) Lessons to Take From Doug Jones’s Win in Alabama Be careful of over-interpretation by partisans. But Jones’s win shouldn’t be under-interpreted, either.
By Ed Kilgore
Too Lazy to Kill Regulations, Trump Is Ignoring Them Instead The president hasn’t eliminated all that many federal rules — but he has let the GOP’s friends run roughshod over them.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Won’t Be Able to Defang the CFPB Without a Fight The president’s plan to put Mick Mulvaney in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — without Senate confirmation — might be illegal.
By Eric Levitz
Former Coal Executive With Shoddy Safety Record Will Lead Mine Safety Agency David Zatezalo takes over the Mine Safety and Health Administration as mine fatalities are spiking.
By Adam K. Raymond
The GOP Donor Class Is a Pack of Ungrateful Brats The GOP has sacrificed its own political interests — and the public’s most basic regulatory protections — to advance its donors’ radical agenda.
By Eric Levitz
What If McCain Had Said ‘Yes’ to the ‘Skinny Repeal’? If the climactic vote on the “skinny repeal” had gone the other way, the result would have probably been the same: GOP failure, with much time lost.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Medicaid Cuts in Senate Health-Care Bill Ever Be Implemented? Mitch McConnell asked conservatives to accept short-term Medicaid concessions in exchange for long-term cuts. They now fear cuts will never happen.
By Ed Kilgore
As U.K. Races to Prevent Another High-Rise Disaster, Lax Regulation Draws Blame Sixty British high-rises have already failed fire-safety tests following the devastating Grenfell Tower inferno. Hundreds more may still be at risk.
By Chas Danner
The GOP Just Voted Against States’ Rights to Shield Wall Street From Competition Republicans just a passed a bill that expands federal regulation, discourages saving, and restricts competition, for Wall Street’s sake.
By Eric Levitz
GOP Hits a Dead End on Trumpcare, Cancels Vote After a “final offer” to House conservatives failed, Trump and Ryan may be back to square one with a divided GOP and no clear path forward.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Confirms Leading Opponent of Environmental Regulation As Head of the EPA Scott Pruitt will spearhead the Trump administration’s efforts to increase water pollution and accelerate man-made climate change.
By Eric Levitz
Here’s How the GOP Will Swiftly Kill Obama’s Final Regulations A little-known law will allow Republicans to repeal Obama’s expansion of overtime pay with a simple majority vote in the House and Senate.
By Eric Levitz
Obama Wins Another Battle in His War on Coal But this thing is probably headed for the Supreme Court.
By Eric Levitz
Regulations
July 13, 2015
New York Chefs Now Required to Freeze Raw Fish, Changing Not Much at All Sushi restaurants boast of fresh fish, but many of the city’s best restaurants already freeze their seafood.
By Chris Crowley
Are You Buying Counterfeit Olive Oil? Our country is full of sub-par olive oil.
By Hannah Howard
Now Delivering
July 28, 2010
By Daniel Maurer
waiting for reform
May 26, 2010
By Jessica Pressler
fi-cri fallout
Feb. 17, 2010
By Jessica Pressler
State Liquor Authority: ‘How We Doin’?’ The SLA wants to hear what you think of it.
By Daniel Maurer