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Vermont is poised to become the 30th U.S. state to legalize marijuana for medical or recreational consumption, and the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana through an act of the legislature, rather than by popular ballot proposition. A bill that would make marijuana legal for adults in Vermont received final approval Wednesday from the Vermont Senate and will soon make its way to the desk of Gov. Phil Scott, who vetoed a similar bill in 2017. In Decem

The newspaper headline caught my eye. For 15 years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) illegally hired physicians and surgeons with revoked licenses and malpractice convictions. As an organizational psychologist and former political candidate, I often described the need to transform the VA and how veteran suicide reflects national questions about war and peace-building. With Steve Sanson, president of Veterans in Politics, International, I co-wrote an article about vets in prison

Read about what really matters from the news last week. We provide you the least-biased news about current events so you can go about your day informed, not brainwashed. What to avoid: * It’s going to be incredibly hard to avoid this one, but please, ignore the President’s tweet about the size of his button. Learn why the tweet doesn’t really matter by reading our standalone post here: Trump’s Button vs. Kim’s Button. * Another item to avoid for the week is the pandemonium over a book comin

Nothing is less American than political parties. As a country, we fancy ourselves a meritocracy staffed by conscientious and well-informed voters. But that can’t possibly be true so long as we continue harnessing ourselves to the wheel called partisanship, which turns and turns but goes precisely nowhere. It’s a tragedy when progressive voters must align themselves with the tone-deaf, good-enough Democratic Party. While the Dems busy themselves figuring out how to appease voters without pissin

The countdown to 2018 has finished and Washington has snapped its head in the direction of another countdown: the mid-term elections in November. In just eleven months, the balance of power can be easily swayed in Congress, which means this year is setting up to be two things: dramatic and expensive. Very Expensive. So, grab some popcorn and your calculator because big money is pouring in to district races from all over the country, and it’s set to make history. In order to flip the Republica

Some days I turn on the TV to catch a few segments of “Morning Joe,” the morning political talk show on MSNBC.  I tuned in last week for a roundtable discussion of a new poll done by Harvard’s Institute for Politics. The survey looked at political sensibilities and views of millennials — who the poll says are fearful about the future — all of whom will be of voting age in 2018. Sitting across from hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the pollster explained that millennials would emerge a

Read our centrist recap for the week below. We shine a light on the spin and useless stories from the Left and Right and detail what you should focus on, before people can pull wool over your eyes. What the partisans will focus on and you should avoid: * Multiple reports have come out about a plan by Chief of Staff John Kelly to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Yes, President Trump and him have quite the strained relationship, and yes, the State Department, and Rex Tillerson, have been

THE GAME OF THE DAY SATURDAY WAS OHIO STATE/WISCONSIN, and the Badgers losing, 27-21, seems fitting, since it adds to the already chaotic state of a chaotic season. Who’s in? Who out? Who’s up? Who’s down? Can we do this dance all-around? What is almost certain, Clemson will be ranked number one in the polls by the AP and coaches, and in the one that matters most — College Football Poll. THAT WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER “DABO” SWINNEY’S TIGERS BEAT THE HURRICANES OF MIAMI, 38-

Supporters of a 2018 ballot initiative to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in California were given the green light by the state attorney general's office earlier this month to circulate petitions and gather signatures. They now have until April 30 to gather and submit 365,880 valid signatures from registered voters in the first state to ever legalize medical marijuana under Proposition 215 in 1996. That ballot proposition, as well as Prop. 64 -- the 2016 voter initiative titled "The Adult Use o

On the surface, it often seems like our existing two-party dominated system is somehow the way our country is “meant to be” and nothing could change that regardless of how dysfunctional things become. But in poll after poll and in countless other ways, the American people are saying loudly and clearly that the major political parties and their leaders are failing the country and the state. That is why more and more people today identify as independents rather than as Republicans or Democrats.