New D.C. Law Says Restaurants Must Rehire Staff They Were Forced To Lay Off
The new law layers more bureaucratic requirements on a hospitality industry trying to bounce back from its worst year on record.
The new law layers more bureaucratic requirements on a hospitality industry trying to bounce back from its worst year on record.
Individually and in organized groups, people are pushing back against lockdown orders.
Surprise: The teachers union opposes this plan.
Now we wait for the FDA to get around to approving it later this week.
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"Both religion and theatre implicate the exercise of First Amendment rights, and the prioritization of religious events over secular artistic events that enjoy First Amendment free speech protection raises potentially thorny questions."
The order is killing businesses and isn't rooted in science.
The New York governor should be disqualified from the U.S. attorney general job, even without a #MeToo-ing.
Unsettled political circumstances and the ongoing pandemic crossed with Congress' broken bill-passing process is a recipe for chaos.
Authoritarian-minded officials have found opportunity in public health fears.
The strange alliance proves once again that the one thing politicians can agree on is spending taxpayers' money.
Don't let stories of rare and dangerous side effects discourage you from getting immunized.
Under punitive federalism, localities refuse dictates from above while state and federal officials retaliate.
The ban is "not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining," Mark Ghaly says, but part of the effort to keep people from leaving home.
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Full FDA approval is likely, and vaccinations could begin next week.
This holiday season, police should give citizens the gift of just leaving them in peace.
Staying isolated from family and friends is wrenchingly difficult, even when it’s the right thing to do.
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
A NYC quarantine fitness entrepreneur stirs up controversy on Nextdoor
A tentative decision from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant is yet another rebuke of officials trying to reimpose March-style lockdowns on a skeptical public.
Five who tested positive recently will participate in this week’s planned executions of Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois.
San Mateo County Health Officer Scott Morrow, who supported last spring's stay-at-home orders, airs his misgivings about reviving that policy.
Courts ignore constitutional guarantees while defendants awaiting trial languish in jail.
Press coverage of the pandemic tends to exaggerate risk and ignore encouraging information.
Plaintiffs are suing for breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
Policymakers "must not penalize residents for earning a livelihood, safeguarding their mental health, or enjoying our most cherished freedoms," said Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes.
Some scientists offer an important reminder about cause and effect.
It is likely to be approved for distribution by the end of the week.
Airlines keep claiming they need a second bailout to bring back 35,000 furloughed employees. Don't buy their argument.
Able to do our jobs from where we please, life for many of us will reflect a bit more of what we want rather than what we have to do to get by.
Ka’Mauri Harrison is accused of bringing a BB gun to school. But he never left his house.
The National Bureau of Economic Research finds that U.S. media coverage of the pandemic is far bleaker than in other countries.
Coastal Carolina University beat BYU on a last-second play Saturday. Four days earlier, neither team expected to be playing the other.
No one has fought harder to keep kids out of the classroom than teachers unions.
The vaccines are great news, but the winter still looks bleak.
The scientific and medical knowledge used to develop and distribute the vaccines is not, thankfully, trapped within national borders.
Everyone has a right to dissent from the epidemiologists' contentment with the way things are now.
The governor's latest order dials up restrictions on whole swaths of California's economy in an effort to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.
Time to add a hat and sunglasses!
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Bob Bryant was infected with COVID-19 while on vacation and died. A news story tries to link that to church services.