COVID Variants Upend Our Reopening
Plus: the Hawaii Innocence Project gets results, a new federal eviction moratorium, and more...
Plus: the Hawaii Innocence Project gets results, a new federal eviction moratorium, and more...
Federal officials invited alarmist press coverage of breakthrough infections.
Thanks to the Supreme Court's decision in the Cedar Point case, this suit has much better odds of success than previous takings challenges to eviction moratoria.
It still covers some 90% of the country, and still rests on a theory of virtually limitless CDC authority. Even President Biden acknowledges the order is legally dubious.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Key to NYC" initiative will require people to get their shots in order to enter the city's bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
In Virginia, the breakthrough hospitalization rate is 0.0032 percent and the breakthrough death rate is 0.0009 percent.
The administration is dismayed by the alarmist news coverage it invited.
The mayor's maskless birthday party was also attended by comedian Dave Chappelle.
Researchers are still trying to determine what role vaccinated carriers may have played in the Massachusetts cases identified by the CDC.
Private schools can stay open even when pandemic rules shut government institutions, court says.
The agency says it found high viral loads in vaccinated people infected by the coronavirus, but the significance of those results is unclear.
Everyone over the age of two will have to wear a mask when indoors, said Mayor Muriel Bowser today.
At a time when the student COVID positivity rate in NYC is 0.01%, the governor is spreading fear that school buildings are death traps.
A new lawsuit from landlords argues that the CDC's eviction moratorium was a taking, and that they're entitled to compensation.
Because adults can't evaluate risk, kids continue to suffer the most from COVID policy, despite suffering the least from COVID.
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Without a Bill of Rights, the land down under quickly goes where America may eventually follow.
The government is also recommending universal masking in schools this fall.
Circuit Judge John K. Bush accuses the federal government of laying claim to "near-dictatorial powers."
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The ruling is unsurprising. But it does further strengthen the case against the moratorium, and increases the odds the issue might eventually make it to the Supreme Court.
Mocking penis-shaped rockets is no substitute for holding the feds accountable for a looming fiscal crisis.
The Sixth Circuit's decision is at odds with that of the D.C. Circuit, and features a Judge Thapar concurrence on delegation.
The governor signed a bill in May limiting the power of state and local officials to impose emergency public health orders.
Even with coronavirus deaths at a trickle, Prime Minister Boris Johnson won’t rule out more lockdowns.
Inside the dispute over gain-of-function research.
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The vaccines are available. The masks are beside the point.
Massive passport-processing delays, due to COVID restrictions and staffing shortages, are ruining summer travel plans and prompting fantastical workarounds.
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The administration’s public pressure campaign against COVID-19 "misinformation" cannot be reconciled with its avowed respect for freedom of expression.
Federal health bureaucrats should stop scapegoating social media.
The CARES Act allowed home release of nonviolent inmates during the pandemic. But after it's over, many will have to go back unless their sentences are commuted.
Also, regulation is (still) not the answer to online misinformation.
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
Speech is protected by the First Amendment even when it discourages vaccination.
The decision is based on the conclusion that the landlords failed to prove they suffered an "irreparable" injury. It upholds a trial court ruling denying a preliminary injunction to landlords challenging the moratorium.
Monetary policy can't work optimally until we free up the economy in other important ways.
Requiring inoculated people to wear masks does not seem like a sensible or effective response, and it could deter vaccination.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki wants the social media site to ban 12 specific anti-vaccine accounts.
The war on drugs is not just ineffective; it exacerbates the problems it is supposed to alleviate.
It would require our enormous government to become less gluttonous with the people's resources.
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From SpaceX and Tesla to Uber and Lyft, many of the most successful companies thrived without the government's stamp of approval.