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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Shirola: Mass restrictions on opioid prescriptions are unnecessary and unethical

Shirola: Mass restrictions on opioid prescriptions are unnecessary and unethical

May 7, 2019

This is the second column in “Failed Policy,” a series examining the history of drugs and drug policy in the United States since its founding. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...

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Shirola: It’s time to legalize marijuana at the federal level

April 9, 2019

This is the first column in “Failed Policy,” a series examining the history of drugs and drug policy in the United States since its founding. Marijuana has a long and interesting history in the...

Buchaniec: The case for a female president

April 8, 2019

During its 242 years of existence, the U.S. has elected 45 presidents, all male and almost all white. The only Oval Office position held by a female commander-in-chief is in fiction. From the calculating...

Thuillier: American people’s disconnect with their government is unlikely to change

Thuillier: American people’s disconnect with their government is unlikely to change

February 11, 2019

Politics happen all the time in Washington, yet we the people — well, most of us — know nothing about it. I, like many Americans, feel disconnected from the government and that feeling is unlikely...

Phillips: Despite University inaction, students still retain power

May 8, 2018

As the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover passed last week, I found myself doing a lot of thinking about the history of this campus, and particularly about how much those student activists...

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