Cubans Cry for 'Freedom'
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Polling finds wide support for draconian lockdowns and permanent restrictions.
After Chinese authorities conducted newsroom raids and arrested top editors, pro-democracy publication Apple Daily realized it could no longer safely operate.
We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.
Revived federalism is a start, but it doesn’t go far enough.
Emergency measures to deal with the crisis are likely to linger long after COVID-19 is gone.
And yet neither Democrats nor Republicans represent those principles.
Democracies are going to have to do better at exercising their core liberal values to prove their worth and win back support.
It's true that the freedom to make your own decisions comes with both benefits and consequences, but Krugman is squarely focused on just one side of that equation.
There’s no reason to fight over the content of your kids’ lessons when you can choose your own.
Making it easier for families to fund their preferred education options will be a lot more effective than throwing a big bribe to teachers unions.
Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing.
When fabulous clothes are outlawed, only outlaws will be fabulous.
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Authoritarian-minded officials have found opportunity in public health fears.
The island nation's harsh drug sentences, crackdowns on speech, and poor treatment of blue-collar immigrants make Singapore's policy not worth replicating.
Breaking: A pair of donors just stepped in at the 11th hour with a huge challenge grant.
Kids need more space to explore weird pastimes and obsessions.
Armed with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the far-reaching guarantees of liberty and equality that they contained, Douglass took the fight directly to the slaveholders.
President Luis Lacalle Pou's defense of free market capitalism—extremely rare in Latin America—is no coronavirus fluke.
Shopping at Target. Dining outdoors. No activity these days is too mundane for protesters to shout at you for it.
As the pandemic rages on, nominally free countries are sliding down a path blazed by authoritarian regimes.
By virtue of representing the correct vision of the good, these conservatives say, they have every right to use the coercive power of the state to interfere with others' choices.
Officials have never liked it when people are free to move about—and beyond their reach.
It's a game of gotcha, played by people who want to destroy their political opponents—and drive them into the outer darkness.
Making cheap tests widely available would go a long way toward crushing the pandemic.
The right's response to the coronavirus lockdowns brings out a longstanding American paradox.
New legislation proposed in Beijing signals the likely end of the "one country, two systems" policy that has allowed Hong Kong to flourish.
The tradeoffs among considerations of health, prosperity, and liberty are catching up with us even if we don't want to acknowledge them.
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Around the world, governments are taking advantage of COVID-19 to tighten the screws on their subjects.
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
The Dispatch senior editor on the value of liberalism and the problems with the new nationalist right
The annual retelling of the Exodus story reminds us not to take freedom for granted.
A pandemic becomes an excuse for treating people as playing pieces in a game.
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
The greatest threat to protections for our freedom may be people's fear that people who disagree with them are exercising their rights.
Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have taken to the streets, smashed lamp posts, and stormed government buildings to keep China from encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms prematurely.
A more active government wins growing approval, but only so long as it doesn’t raise taxes, require tradeoffs, or interfere with private enterprise.
"Liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "is unobstructed action according to our will; but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."
If a tiny floating cottage brought down the wrath of the Thai navy, is there any hope for stateless life at sea?
Under Chinese authoritarianism, they'll have neither.
Maybe the ocean is a place where we can experiment with new ways of living.
Putting up with some drag-queen storytelling seems like a small price to pay to live in a relatively free society.
Don't believe news reports—we're healthier, richer, and safer than ever before.
"Hong Kong is a place without basic political and economic freedom," Wong tells Reason.
TV's "Mr. Wonderful" says that the president has deregulated the economy.