The Pandemic's Economic Impact Includes More Americans Starting Their Own Small Businesses
Though the American economy still looks bleak, there are silver linings.
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Divided Sixth Circuit Panel Refuses to Stay Injunction Against Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
The panel rejects the argument that the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act allows the federal government to require vaccination for nearly one-fifth of the American workforce.
Rochelle Walensky Said an Antigen Test Is a Good Tool for 'Judging Infectiousness.' Now She Says 'Its Information Will Not Be Useful.'
The CDC director's explanation of her agency's confusing advice about home COVID-19 testing is hard to understand.
Biden Is Trying to Disguise a General Vaccine Mandate As a Workplace Safety Measure
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide how convincing that disguise is.
If It's Really a 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated,' Mr. President, Why Is My Vaccinated 6-Year-Old Wearing a Mask?
I regret to inform you that Joe Biden has made another COVID speech.
Can Democrats Keep Schools Open During Omicron?
New NYC Mayor Eric Adams quashes a micro-rebellion among some teachers union members, but school closures Monday hit a record for 2021-22.
What We Got Right and Wrong About 2021 (and What We Predict for 2022)
Plus, the CDC's amateur psychoanalyzing.
Anthony Fauci Is Right To Distinguish COVID-19 Infections, Which Are Exploding, From Severe Disease, Which Is Not
Based on the experience in South Africa, the Biden administration's top medical adviser says "this thing will peak after a period of a few weeks and turn around."
CDC: 61% of Teenagers Hospitalized for COVID-19 Had Obesity
A new study of 915 childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations found that most involved underlying conditions.
It's COVID Year 3 and the CDC Is Still Confused and Confusing
Plus: Conspiracy theory research, student loan forgiveness, and more...
The Lockdown Showdown
Alarmed by unilateral COVID-19 restrictions, states are imposing new limits on executive authority.
California Is Stuck With Newsom's Nanny State Pandemic Policies
The pandemic has served as a nice reminder of the merits of federalism, where states are the laboratories of democracy that can try regulatory approaches that conform to local attitudes and conditions.
The 10 Worst Helicopter Parenting Stories of 2021
Suffice it to say, the pandemic did not lead to great childhood independence policies.
2021 Was Another Disappointing Year for Immigration Policy
Joe Biden promised to do better by migrants upon taking office, but he fell short in 2021.
Poll: 90% of Chicago Public School Teachers Would Go Back to Virtual Learning
The union is preparing to strike if its demands are not met.
Why the Pandemic Will End Only When We Demand It's Over
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
Joe Biden Would Be a Better President if He Stopped Saying Things That Aren't True
And we would be better citizens if we called him out for it more.
T-Cell Immunity Likely To Prevent Severe COVID-19 from Omicron Infections
Vaccination and prior infection induce a strong second line of immunological defense, finds South African study.
Goodbye, Cuomos!
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
This Year Wasn't as Bad as 2020, But We Deserve Better
It sucked for avoidable reasons.
The Year's Highlights in Blame Shifting
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
Recent COVID-19 Trends Suggest That Initial Fears of Omicron Were Overwrought
Focusing on infections rather than severe disease is more misleading than ever.
Fauci Wants To Kick the Unvaxxed Off of Airplanes
Should the no-fly list include another 70 million Americans?
Canada Granted Permanent Residency to a Record Number of People in 2021
Canadian officials recognize that immigrants are key to the post-COVID economic recovery. The U.S. should take note.
What Rapidly Rising COVID-19 Infections Among NFL Players May Mean for the Rest of Us
As the NFL goes, so goes the nation?
Americans Fled California, New York, and D.C. During COVID
Financial pressure is the main reason why people say they move, and pandemic-era public policy created a lot more financial pressure in certain places.
Do Kids Really Need To Wear Masks at School?
“We essentially reorganized our society around the control of a single infectious disease, when in fact, health is plural," says Stanford professor of health policy Jay Bhattacharya.
RIP, 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated'
Farewell to a Biden White House messaging strategy that was terrible long before Omicron
The CDC Director's Slippery Response to Criticism of School Mask Mandates Further Undermines Her Agency's Credibility
Rochelle Walensky willfully ignores the weaknesses of a study she repeatedly cited to justify "universal masking" of students.
Omicron Hospitalization Risk Two-Thirds Lower than Delta Infection, Says Scottish Study
Also vaccine boosters reduce risk of symptomatic infection by nearly 60 percent
Rand Paul: Feds Wasted $52 Billion on Slot Machine-Playing Pigeons, COVID Aid, Afghanistan, and More
No wonder the federal budget is so out of whack.
Karol Markowicz's Escape From New York Should Worry Blue-State America
This Brooklyn-bred New York Post columnist and her family are fleeing to Florida due to bad education policy and COVID mismanagement.
FDA Finally Gets Around to Approving Pfizer's Anti-COVID Pill
It's another case of bureaucratic incompetence as the omicron wave surges.
Rand Paul: Fauci Is Not Beyond Reproach
"Any time you have government dogma saying they are science, or government bureaucrats who claim that 'this is the one and perfect truth'…we should run headlong away."
Biden Administration Reverses Course, Will Let Prisoners Sent Home Due to Pandemic Stay There
Christmas comes a few days early for 2,800 inmates who had told they’d eventually have to return to their cells to serve out their terms.
Good News: Biden Says Schools 'Must' Stay Open. Bad News: Many Won't.
The president rightly points out that the federal government has sloshed billions of dollars to make K-12 schools even safer than they already were. Yet many are about to close.
Biden's Plan To Fight Omicron With Mass Testing Is Laughable Given the FDA's Approval Failures
Plus: Criminals have stolen $100 billion in pandemic relief funds, and colleges are planning to go virtual once again.
Biden Says the U.S. Is Not Going Back Into Lockdown Over Omicron
As omicron surges, the president urges everyone to get vaccinated and boosted.
When Will the COVID-19 Pandemic End?
When we decide to stop paying attention to it, say two authors in the health care journal BMJ.
CNN's Leana Wen: 'Cloth Masks Are Little More Than Facial Decorations'
Maybe we don't need to wear them?
The Omicron COVID-19 Wave Is Here Now and Rising Fast
Researchers are still uncertain about how severe the variant will be.
Christmas Travel Rebounds Despite Official Handwringing About Omicron
Plus: Swearing increased during the pandemic, progressives want to see the Build Back Better agenda enacted by executive fiat, and more...
Here Is Why the 6th Circuit Reinstated OSHA's Vaccine Mandate—and Why One Judge Disagreed
The argument hinges largely on what makes an emergency standard "necessary."
A Reality Check on Coronavirus, Congress, and Elon Musk's Taxes
Time to stop pretending
