California Voters Reject Proposition to Legalize Pot

It looks like a ballot measure to legalize marijuana in California has failed. Proposition 19 would have made it legal for adults of drinking age to possess up to 1 ounce of pot, as well as to grow and smoke the drug in private…

How Did Global Warming Fare on Election Day?

As California voters wait to find out whether they’ve suspended a major global-warming law, which requires the state to scale back carbon emissions 25% to 1990 levels by 2020, New Mexico on Tuesday passed its own measure to red…

Will a GOP Victory Give the Stock Market Wings?

If history is any indicator, stocks tend to do best when the president is a Democrat and Congress is Republican. Other precedents offer conflicting signs. But it seems clear that stocks often outperform in the year after a midt…