As of Election Day 2020, 1 in 3 Americans live in a state where adults can legally buy cannabis. Here’s what we know about the drug.
By Erin Brodwin and Julia Naftulin
Marijuana’s official designation in the US as a Schedule 1 drug — something with “no currently accepted medical use” — means it has been pretty tough to study.
That remains the case, despite the fact that, at a state level, the drug is increasingly accessible for the general public.
As of Election Day 2020, when Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota gave the green light to marijuana…
Experts agree: This virus isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. But it’s possible that in the months ahead we’ll devise bright new ways to fight back.
By Andrew Dunn, Aria Bendix, and Hilary Brueck
As the pandemic approaches its second year, the coronavirus has morphed into a tougher foe.
Several mutations that scientists have identified in rapidly spreading variants are particularly worrisome. They raise concerns that these strains will be more contagious or be able to at least partly evade protection provided by vaccines and by prior infections.
Let’s be clear: No one knows how the next phase of the pandemic…
Rudy Giuliani’s pathetic press conference underscored how little President Trump has to back his claims of election fraud. It was also hilarious.
By Linette Lopez
On Thursday former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — representing the President of the United States — took to television to decry the outcome of the 2020 election, spout conspiracy theories, and echo disproven lies.
One of his equally glassy-eyed fellows claimed that former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — a man who died in 2013 — helped rig the 2020 election.
Giuliani sweat so profusely that his hair dye ran down his face. He…
US regulators recommended an immediate pause of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine rollout on Tuesday due to six rare blood-clot cases.
By Aria Bendix
Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine rollout has hit several major snags this month.
On Tuesday, US regulators recommended an immediate pause of the company’s vaccine rollout so that they can investigate six cases in which women developed rare blood clots within two weeks of receiving J&J’s shot. One of those women died and a second is in critical condition.
European regulators also announced last week that they were investigating Johnson & Johnson’s shot for links to rare…
Gen Z is set to earn a third less on stock and bond investments than millennials, Gen X, and boomers. They can expect average returns of just 2%.
By Hillary Hoffower
Gen Z is walking a rocky road to getting rich.
They’re set to earn less than previous generations on stocks and bonds, according to Credit Suisse’s global investment returns yearbook.
In fact, the generation can expect average annual real returns of just 2% on their investment portfolios — a third less than the 5%-plus real returns that millennials, Gen X, and baby boomers have seen. …
It is time the US government restores America’s tarnished international image and curb the rise of Beijing’s global power.
By Brett Bruen
Why is the US doing such a poor job of addressing the China challenge?
Right now, the American strategy seems to amount to tariffs, sanctions, demonstrations of military force, and an unending stream of strongly-worded statements. In short, the US is still playing on China’s terms and turf. That approach will only go so far and too often allows Chinese leaders to portray the West as the aggressor.
But America already has many of the tools to win…
Trump’s dream of recovering his massive social media following is set to be crushed.
By Thomas Colson
Donald Trump’s plan to create a new social media platform is doomed to fail, experts have told Insider, with the former president unlikely to extend his following beyond a dwindling number of his remaining supporters.
Kicked off Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube after the Capitol riot on January 6, the former president has spent the last few months in the digital wilderness, resorting to issuing press statements via email.
Now, says his aide Jason Miller, he’s planning to come roaring back with his…
It seems unlikely that vaccinated people spread the coronavirus. So Fauci told Insider the US may return to normal sooner than we think.
By Aylin Woodward
It’s the million-dollar question: When can life go back to normal?
Anthony Fauci gets asked this a lot.
“It’s very difficult to predict, but I would think that we would approach some degree of normality as we get towards the end of the summer and into the fall, and a considerable degree of normality as we get into the winter of this coming year,” he told Insider in a recent interview.
Fauci, the director…
Anti-Asian racism does not stop at national borders.
By Jimin Kang
Before I came to the United States for college, I had never considered myself a person of color. Nor did I think of myself as generically “Asian.” I was a South Korean who’d grown up in Hong Kong — belonging to two places where, as far as skin color went, I had always been part of the racial majority.
Four years after my arrival, there isn’t a day where I don’t think about the color of my skin. And recent events have made me warier than usual. After six…
Her childhood vacations hold some of her best memories, so as a mom, she’s willing to prioritize travel to give her kids the same joyful experience.
By Olivia Christensen
“Poor” feels like a harsh word to describe how I grew up, but not an inaccurate one. My mom stayed home, my dad worked a low-paying job in education, and what money we had tended to get eaten by the livestock we kept on our farm.
I don’t want to paint too bleak of a picture — we never went hungry — but some days for breakfast we ate the leftovers…
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