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New Books

I’m a father now. Please, hold your applause. As I write this, my son is fifteen days old, and I’m staring into the soft hurricane whorl of his hair, thinking…

Miracle Cure

by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling,

Saturn Return

by Andrew Weil,

Scenes from the life of a psychedelic pioneer

Power of Attorney

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can progressive prosecutors achieve meaningful criminal-justice reform?

Public Enemy

From the jury selection process that took place over three days in June for the trial of Martin Shkreli, an investor and hedge fund founder who is facing eight counts…

Hard Drugs

From a list of over-the-counter sexual-enhancement products sold since 2007 that have been identified as harmful by the Food and Drug Administration.

Hashtag Prescription

by Helen Ouyang,

The hidden cost of crowd-sourcing a cure

Legalize It All

by Dan Baum,

How to win the war on drugs

Off Site

From online messages found on Ross Ulbricht’s laptop in 2013 by FBI agents. Ulbricht, then twenty-nine, was arrested while working on his computer in a San Francisco public library. In…

The Problem of Pain Management

by Simon Liem, Jonah Campbell,

The makers of OxyContin play dirty

Gaboxadol

by Hamilton Morris,

In 1755 the naturalist Stepan Krasheninnikov observed the Amanita muscaria mushroom’s effects on Russian soldiers in Siberia ingesting it for the first time. Claiming to have been seized by an…