Social Issues

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Drugs from Canadian Illustration by Linas Garys/The Washington Times

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A massive new Ipsos poll surveyed people in 27 nations and revealed that the majority now pine for just a "normal" life. (NASA)

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Employees of a Medicaid-managed company silently protest as Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards leaves the Louisiana Secretary of State's office. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on population control by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Gay Glove Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, offered a plan that has a fund for workers who were displaced in the transition to cleaner energy. (Associated Press photographs)

In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. Attorneys on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, asked a judge to reject Trump administration plans to detain migrant families longer than they're allowed now and to remove court oversight of how children are treated in government custody. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Coming After Retirement Savings Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Activists at the Supreme Court opposed to partisan gerrymandering hold up representations of congressional districts from North Carolina, left, and Maryland, right, as justices hear arguments about the practice of political parties manipulating the boundary of a congressional district to unfairly benefit one party over another, in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Democrats and Republicans eagerly await the outcome of cases from Maryland and North Carolina because a new round of redistricting will follow the 2020 census, and the decision could help shape the makeup of Congress and state legislatures over the next decade. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Illustration on Jacob Baryla’s protest of a gay pride parade by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Illustration on perceptions of illegal immigration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether e-cigarettes are linked to seizures and other neurlogical issues such as fainting or tremors. The agency received 127 reports from 2010 to 2019 of people who said they had seizures, tremors or fainted. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Patrice Sullivan, whose boyfriend, a Marine, died from suicide, helps to remove 5,000 small U.S. flags representing suicides of active and veteran members of the military line the National Mall, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in an action by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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A Hispanic supporter holds up a sign for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016. Support among Hispanics for Mr. Trump has dropped in several major states. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Matthew T. Albence is acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent apprehends a person suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. While many adults crossing the border on their own in South Texas try to flee agents, most migrant parents and children wait to surrender so they can be processed and released into the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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The Women for Trump organization will stage an "Empower" rally to fire up support for President Trump and down-ballot Republicans. (Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.)

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Democratic state Sen. Martin Sandoval apologized Sunday after photos from one of his political fundraisers that surfaced on social media showed a mock assassination of President Trump. (WCIA)

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In this undated photo of a group of immigrants, who arrived at Ellis Island in New York, wait in line to begin immigration proceedings. Senior White House aide Stephen Miller told reporters Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that the poem written by Emma Lazarus about the "huddled masses" is not part of the original Statue of Liberty. Miller says the Statue of Liberty is a "symbol of American liberty lighting the world" and suggested the statue had little to do with immigrants. The National Park Services says Lazarus' sonnet depicts the statue as a symbol of immigration and opportunity. (AP Photo/File)