Archive: October 2026

Four years after the first Adderall shortage notice, the DEA has raised its national stimulant production quotas twice. The mechanism behind the gap that remains is bureaucratic, not dramatic.

More than a million Australians got a please-explain letter after last year's election, with fines starting at $20 and climbing to $330 in court. Here's how that compares with Belgium, Brazil and Singapore, three of the roughly twenty other countries that still make voting the law.

Nearly every major cruise line is incorporated in Panama, Liberia or Bermuda, with ships flying Panama, Bahamas or Maltese flags instead of the Stars and Stripes. It's a structure worth billions in avoided U.S. tax, and it sets the wages of the crew who serve you.

The sun's path crosses the horizon at its steepest angle near the equinoxes and nearly flattens out near the solstices — and Chicago's sunrise-sunset data show just how much that speeds up, then stalls, the loss of daylight.