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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to the White House on Nov. 2, 2025 after taking off from Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Trump's war on drugs has exceptions

Heather Digby Parton

Reports are now out that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered multiple missile strikes to make sure there were no survivors on the supposed "drug boats" from South America. (Felix Leon / AFP via Getty Images)

Hegseth ordered 2nd strike on survivors

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

Trump’s threats show he is unfit to lead

Venezuelan fishermen take precautions in response to U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, Sept. 24, 2025. (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has free rein to kill

Jesselyn Radack

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The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, is now on its way to the Caribbean. (JONATHAN KLEIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump signals war in all but name

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump believes he has a license to kill

Heather Digby Parton

Bolivia, La Paz: Women in typical costumes distribute coca leaves on coca chewing day. Photo: Radoslaw Czajkowski/dpa (Photo by Radoslaw Czajkowski/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Groups demand: "decolonize" coca leaves

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 06: Afghan workers work at poppy field in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 06, 2022. Farmers demand an alternative for plantations after Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation. (Photo by Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Europe's looming overdose crisis

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TO GO WITH NARCOTRAFICO AVISOS - This Sept. 7, 2010, photo provided by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows more than 110 kg of marijuana seized from a vehicle that attempted to enter the U.S. near San Diego. The driver of this vehicle had stated he responded to a newspaper ad allegedly placed by drug smugglers to recruit drivers to unwittingly take drugs across the border. Smugglers are advertising in Mexican newspapers for jobs as security guards, housecleaners and cashiers to recruit the unemployed and underemployed to drive drug-laden vehicles into the United States. Starting this week in April 2012, U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement began warning job applicants in two Tijuana newspapers that they may be unwitting targets for drug cartels. (AP Photo/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) (Associated Press)

Who benefited from the war on drugs?

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute

Counterfeit handbags and shirts seized by Customs are displayed at Ministere des Finances on April 22, 2010 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Don’t buy that Gucci knockoff

Jay Kennedy - The Conversation

This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

El Chapo found guilty on 10 counts

Presidential candidates Jaime Rodriguez, Ricardo Anaya, Jose Antonio Meade, and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador attend the second of three debates, on Sunday, May 20, 2018. (INE via AP)

Amnesty for drug traffickers?

Luis Gómez Romero - The Conversation

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Weirdest true-crime tale ever

A photo of the author, right, and actress Taylor Schilling (playing Piper Chapman) in "Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix)

Serving my time with "OITNB"

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