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Proponents of marijuana legalization have advanced plenty of arguments in support of their drug of choice: marijuana is less dangerous than legal substances like cigarettes and alcohol; pot has legitimate medical uses; the money spent prosecuting marijuana offenses would be better used for more pressing public concerns.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Marijuana the Answer to California's Budget Woes? | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Petitions for pardons are usually sent in writing to the White House counsel's office or a specially designated attorney at the Department of Justice. In Libby's case, Cheney simply carried the message directly to Bush, as he had with so many other issues in the past, pressing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

The problem facing Obama is that pressing for a two-state solution has put him at odds with a reluctant Israeli government that has now chosen the emotive issue of Jerusalem as the test of how far he's willing to go. If he backs down, Obama pulls the plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem Threatens Obama Peace Plan | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

The threat of such an attack carries echoes of the past for those who have been in the Pentagon for a while. In the mid-1980s, the Air Force launched the short-lived Air Defense Initiative, designed to shoot down Soviet cruise missiles launched toward the U.S. "It's an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Secretary Gates Downs the F-22 | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

Granted, some Iranians have little taste for American culture, but they see immigration to the U.S. and Europe as a way to escape the increasingly repressive regime. The brain drain has been a pressing problem for years, but the presidential election and its fallout has quickened its pace. An Iranian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Satan's Old Den: Visiting Tehran's U.S. Embassy | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

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