A controversial new biography collects just about every rumor and bad story ever told about baseball icon Alex Rodriguez. But who leaked his drug tests, and what do they mean, anyway?
By Allen Barra May 8, 2009
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It doesn't make me fascinating, but it does alleviate the tedium.
By Cary Tennis
April 22, 2009
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As tea-partiers protest taxes, pot smokers offer to pay more.
By Ben Travers
April 16, 2009
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The economic meltdown is playing into the hands of crime syndicates and corrupt governments, as people worldwide grow desperate to make ends meet.
By Michael Klare
April 7, 2009
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New York finally overturns the egregious laws that left minor offenders like Elaine Bartlett in prison for 16 years.
By Abigail Kramer
April 6, 2009
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Our nation's narcotics policy, that is. But there's good news as Hillary Clinton and Sen. Jim Webb take baby steps toward sanity.
By David Sirota
April 4, 2009
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The president ducks traps laid by the GOP and slams the door on marijuana legalization at his first online town hall.
By Mike Madden
March 27, 2009
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Jackie and Dunlap imagine a world where Sam's Club sells weed, the recession ends and there's no more violence.
March 27, 2009
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The British actor, comedian and professional troublemaker talks about political comedy, dressing up as Osama bin Laden, and his new "Booky Wook."
By Joy Press
March 13, 2009
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After her teenagers hit the streets, author Debra Gwartney faced desperation and panic. She talks about why her children left -- and how they finally returned.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 7, 2009
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A new plan to legalize marijuana in California would create a $1 billion tokin' tax and thousands of green jobs. Now that's a stimulus plan!
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 3, 2009
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Alex Rodriguez doesn't seem to come fully clean, but without fear of baseball's draconian punishments, he offers something in short supply in the war on drugs: Information.
By King Kaufman
February 18, 2009
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His doctor says not to but he tokes up anyway.
By Cary Tennis
February 10, 2009
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Come on, people, all he did was smoke some weed, like Bill Gates, Barack Obama and countless other overachievers.
By Joe Conason
February 6, 2009
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The "crack baby epidemic" was a myth. So what do we do about the devastating policy it created?
By Nancy Goldstein
January 28, 2009
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Shouldn't I be further along by now? Shouldn't I be out of survival mode?
By Cary Tennis
January 22, 2009
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America is a country in recovery. Two new books illustrate the paradoxes and contradictions in our current notions of addiction.
By Laura Miller
January 14, 2009
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Every year we throw away billions on a failed program to punish addicts -- an approach both candidates should know doesn't work.
By Joe Conason
October 20, 2008
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A lawyer for the beer heiress complains to the New York Times about unfair "cruel hit pieces."
By Andrew Leonard
October 18, 2008
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Earlier this week, the Department of Interior received a commendation for promoting a "stronger ethical culture"
By Andrew Leonard
September 12, 2008
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Some Democrats argue that the sex-drugs-and-oil scandal is reason enough to prohibit offshore drilling. Not exactly
By Andrew Leonard
September 12, 2008
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It's a Bush administration bonanza -- "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" at the Department of Interior
By Andrew Leonard
September 10, 2008
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The veteran newspaperman discusses his alternately horrifying and uplifting memoir about the journey from crackhead to crack New York Times reporter.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 8, 2008
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Andrew O'Hehir interviews the writer about his memoir, drug addiction and memory.
August 8, 2008
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An interview with David Maraniss, whose new book argues that many current Olympic issues can trace their roots to Rome.
By King Kaufman
August 7, 2008
The dirt on A-Rod
I'm so boring I've started drinking!
"Who wants to pay taxes? WE DO!" 
A global epidemic of violent crime
Rockefeller Drug Laws: The end of an error
Drug-fueled madness!
Obama goes back to the grass roots
Red State Update: Legalize drugs, save Mexico
Sex, anarchy and Russell Brand
Runaway daughters
Everybody must get stoned
A-Rod's "medicine"
Michael Phelps: Puppy torturer!
Alcoholics, sexaholics, shopaholics
Budget cutting? Take a hatchet to the war on drugs
Sex, drugs, oil, and an ethics award
The devil and David Carr
1960: The birth of today's games
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
Joan Walsh