“[T]he great deference due state economic regulation does not demand judicial blindness to the history of a challenged rule or the context of its adoption nor does it require courts to accept nonsensical explanations for regulation.”
"We want to attract international entrepreneurs and investors and become a financial center for the country and region."
Neither politician is willing to tolerate deviation from the one business policy he thinks is best.
"Government should be very small. It should just regulate the minimum."
Plus: You can't FOIA politicians' browser histories, Pentagon compels commercial airlines to evacuate Afghan refugees, and more...
Gov. Greg Abbott's position on private vaccination requirements is confused and confusing.
Jigisha Modi can't hire her own mother-in-law—who has decades of eyebrow-threading experience—because of Kansas' occupational licensing rules. Now she's suing.
Trump's critics fault him for fomenting division. The left's efforts to drive people of faith from the public square are making the problem worse.
Plus: Supreme Court to rule on Catholic foster agencies, tech associations sue over social media law in Florida, and more…
Good stories introduce people to liberty long before they think about policy.
Plus: Mask burning is freedom of speech, New York reaches recreational weed deal, and more...
Occupational licensing rules are more often arbitrary bureaucratic hurdles than they are protections for health or safety.
Perhaps Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht ought to read more history, starting with the speeches of the late Rep. John Bingham.
Plus: More red states may get legal weed, antitrust action against Google expected this week, the Cuties controversy, and more...
In the president’s mind, trade is not a right to be respected but a process to be managed by politicians.
"I know what moral panics look like; they look kind of like this."
The danger of the virus can’t be considered to the exclusion of the need for jobs and prosperity.
Officials claim doing business is a revocable “privilege,” but many Americans see it as a right that they’ll exercise with or without licenses and permits.
Plus: the latest unemployment numbers, Biden apologizes for comment on diversity, Ohio governor gets flip-flopping COVID-19 results, and more…
If there's one thing at which governments have excelled during this crisis, it's been collecting fines from anybody who steps out of line.
Douglass' classic speech is an indictment of slavery, racism, and American hypocrisy - but also includes a great deal of praise of the American Revolution.
Get ready for more pain caused by COVID-19 as well as by the policies intended to hold it in check.
Even after government had imposed an almost unfathomable level of intervention on the economy, the markets are chugging along much better than expected.
Top-down, one-size-fits-few mandates are recipes for conflict.
Plus: the weird new battle lines on warrantless surveillance, more CDC incompetence, Minneapolis on fire, and more…
We've seen this before...
Even the president is a better moral philosopher than New York's governor.
Unless we cause one by overreacting to Asia's changing political and economic landscape
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
Plus: Puerto Rico criminalizes fake news about COVID-19, wide geographic disparity in U.S. income growth, and more...
The restrictions are less dangerous precisely because they are so broad and onerous.
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
Gig workers and companies are suing over a California law, AB 5, that criminalizes their continued employment.
Plus: Is there anything the upcoming spending bill doesn't contain? And more...
Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang thinks so.
"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."
A Davidson County judge ruled Tuesday that Nashville's ban on home businesses servicing clients on site is constitutional.
Dump intrusive trade policies to give a real boost to consumers and entrepreneurs.
Another victory for licensing reform in the Grand Canyon State.
Revisiting their debate on judicial protection of economic liberty.
A new Reason Foundation report finds cities in Texas and Florida have the highest degrees of economic freedom.
State lawmakers target pet groomers, drain cleaners, interior designers, pecan buyers, athletic trainers, antler dealers, and....art therapists?
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
India is known as the land of contradictions, and recent events do little to undermine that reputation.
The U.S. rose four places in the International Tax Competitiveness Index, and this just the latest bit of good news.
Economic freedom is good-whether in itself or because of the longevity, prosperity, and associated liberty it brings.
Let's get behind economic freedom for everyone, even when we don't like how they use it.
In a speech drafted but never delivered in the waning weeks of the 1980 campaign, Reagan was to say: "The overriding question is not one of Left or Right. It is one of reversing the flow of power and control to ever more remote institutions."
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