Enough opioid prescriptions are being written to supply every person in America and 10 million Americans are likely misusing them in ways other than pain relief

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For all the attention being paid to Donald Trump's cabinet appointees, his choice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court will likely have the longest-lasting impact on the nation

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If you're raising a toast this holiday season, what's in your glass is a good indication of how you voted.

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Some of the great certainties in life are death, taxes and ethics in the news. Headline-making stories involving public officials embroiled in scandals often have ethical violations at their cores.

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A diverse panel of federal, state and industry experts gathered in a session of the NCSL Capitol Forum on Thursday to discuss and debate what the proper role for states and the federal government is with regards to regulation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS/drones).

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Yascha Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, opened a session of the NCSL Legislative Effectiveness Committee by posing a chilling question: Just how stable is the U.S. system of democracy, and is it, in fact, on a pathway to unraveling?

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What can states do to help their citizens with disabilities enter the workforce and advance their careers? Quite a bit suggests a new joint report from NCSL and the Council of State Governments.

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Just as uncertainty grips the nation's capital over what the new administration will portend, state legislators found their federal counterparts grappling with what will happen on a host of issues crucial to the states.

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What trait do many legislative leaders share? They read. Not just bills and policy reports. They read history, biography, fiction, science and technology. The kind of stuff that can nudge us to consider things in new ways

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NCSL is pleased to provide maps that show the partisan control of each district, one map for Senates and one for lower chambers—Houses and Assemblies. We can do so through a partnership with Quorum, a firm that offers bill tracking and political information using data analytics.

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