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America going to pot?

by Tara Longardner | Feb 9, 2015 | Living, Politics

WASHINGTON – Residents of the nation’s capital voted overwhelmingly in November to legalize marijuana, but the fate of the initiative is now in the hands of a Republican-controlled Congress. Without congressional authorization, the legalization issue would be...

SCOTUS hears arguments on abortion clinic buffer zones

by Lauren Caruba | Jan 15, 2014 | Politics

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices Wednesday questioned the fairness of a Massachusetts law that creates restrictive zones around abortion clinics, pitting First Amendment rights against obstruction statutes. The court weighed the state’s history of disturbances near...

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STATE OF THE UNION 2018

Medill on the Hill teamed up with Northwestern News Network in Evanston to produce a package of stories covering President Barack Obama's seventh and final State of the Union address. The two newsrooms collaborated across time zones to produce a three-hour broadcast and more than a dozen print and digital reports. Check out our broadcast here.

CYBERSECURITY

In a series of investigative reports, Medill on the Hill reporters uncovered threats to privacy and security in the digital age ranging from the safety of your online campaign donations to how computer hacking could impact food safety.