“The time when [Germany] could plead its history as an excuse to stand aside is long past. Europe’s economic anchor nation is essential to any Western effort to deter Putin. Every potential measure—sanctions on Russian entities, cutting Russia out of the SWIFT electronic payment system, cancelling the Nord Stream 2 pipeline—would be financially and politically costly for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s new government,” writes Constanze Stelzenmüller.
Health providers are warning that American children and adolescents are facing a mental health state of emergency. Vikki Wachino, Richard Frank, Keith Humphreys, and John O’Brien argue that doing right by kids requires simultaneously preventing as many of them as possible from experiencing mental health problems and providing services for those who do.
Is there any hope that this Congress will pass federal cannabis legislation? The situation that is holding Congress back is a simple one: there is not a sufficient coalition of House members and a filibuster-proof majority of senators who agree on comprehensive legalization, explains John Hudak.
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