Bags with coca paste, a crude extract of the coca leaf, are pictured at a laboratory in a municipality in Nariño department, Colombia, on May 11, 2023. - Andrews Buitrago/AFP/Getty Images A version of ...

Aside from the belated case at the International Criminal Court, institutions of international accountability have been ...

Last month, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution recently that would have prevented the Trump administration from launching military strikes in Venezuela without congressional ...

As our understanding of the consequences of drug abuse has improved, so has America’s relationship with drugs changed. From ...

The reason for all this is Trump’s war on what he says are Venezuelan “narco-terrorists” that are attacking the United States under Maduro’s leadership. (The “cartel” he is alleged to be leading is ...

Close your eyes and imagine you enter an average federal prison in the U.S. What do you see? Probably old and decrepit buildings, overworked and underpaid staff, overcrowded facilities, below standard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week saw an escalation of the ongoing U.S. military strikes against supposed drug smugglers in international waters. The ...

“Don’t get stuck on stupid,” advised Army Lt. General Russel Honore, brought in following Hurricane Katrina’s 2005 Louisiana landfall. America has been stuck on stupid in the “war on drugs” for a half ...

When the U.S. government launches deadly force against suspected drug carriers far away, it sets a chilling and dangerous precedent. For followers of Christ, this state expansion of power to take a ...

Has the once ballyhooed U.S. “war on drugs” been put on the policy backburner? Many experts think it has, and also that this might be a good thing. As the Bush administration has turned its attention ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...