Losing America's drug war

In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere "America" after Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci. The former British colonies first used the country's modern name in the Declaration of Independence, the "unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America" adopted by the "Representatives of the united States of America" on July 4, 1776. The current name was finalized on November 15, 1777, wh...

The U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice publishes non-fiction reports on national security and criminal justice topics. Their notable works include *Shattering the