Politics & Globalization

Thanks to the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids and its allies, young people learned that using drugs was like cracking your skull open and frying your brains on a hot skillet. Short on facts but heavy on scare tactics, these ads warned against becoming a "junkie" or an "addict," all while portraying drug users as "criminals" and "losers." This is just the type of stigmatization the Partnership warns against today. 

In 2009 and 2010, as Democrats prepared to overhaul the American health care system, they held 44 congressional hearings and public meetings over the course of 15 months of drafting and discussing their legislation.There were, according to a tally made by Vox’s Garet Williams and Carly Sitrin, 22 hearings in the Senate and 22 in the House.

Republicans are on track to hold exactly two congressional hearings — both in the House of Representatives — on their six-month sprint to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

A small yet vocal group of congressmen are gearing up this summer to dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Campaign finance records of these lawmakers reveal that they have all taken significant money from extractive industries frustrated by the law's protection of critical habitat for endangered species.

Behind the scenes, as law enforcement officials tried to stem protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, alumni from the George W. Bush White House were leading a crisis communications effort to discredit pipeline protesters.