A bill decriminalizing the possession and personal use of psychedelics now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk after both houses in the California legislature approved it.

“More Americans than at any time in the past two decades now say drinking alcohol [even in moderation] is bad for one’s health,” report the opinion johnnies at Gallup, who have been asking since 2001 whether alcohol is detrimental. More than a third think drink, even in moderation, is unhealthy. That’s a significant increase over 20 years ago. The growing disdain for drink, we are told, is being designated-driven by young adults. A more salubrious alternative, the young prohibitionists tell Gallup, is marijuana.

Reports of the rampant violent crime plaguing Philadelphia have been known for years. Larry Krasner, the city’s Soros-funded, radical left-wing district attorney, implemented many criminal justice reform policies that kept criminals out of jail and on the street. These horrible decisions were all done under the guise of social justice. Unfortunately, people like Larry Krasner didn’t suffer from these poor decisions. It was innocent people such as Scott Harris, a Navy veteran who was viciously attacked last month.

“Feminism is the new natalism,” David Willetts, a British member of Parliament, declared in a 2004 manifesto. In contrast to those strains of feminism that argue marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood are systems of oppression, the pro-human feminists grabbed on to this idea of “fecund feminism.” For nearly 20 years, many op-eds have echoed Willetts’s arguments.

HBO’s new docuseries Telemarketers is a riveting, charmingly gonzo investigation of the industry by former telemarketers who first began documenting their job with camcorders two decades ago at a New Jersey phone bank later shut down by the Federal Trade Commission. Directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern and produced by Josh and Benny Safdie and Danny McBride, among others, the documentary is a scruffy sensation recalling the best early work of Michael Moore.

It is bad enough that California’s Proposition 47 already functionally legalized shoplifting in the Golden State by reducing the penalty for stealing less than $950 worth of merchandise to a misdemeanor.

A president concerned about economic well-being in the nation he leads would look for ways to reduce the price of gasoline as both Saudi Arabia and Russia announced extended cuts to oil production this week.

Lawmakers within the Senate Energy Committee heard from experts and officials about the DOE's work with AI and where the technology penetrates other facets of everyday life.