The Unseen Costs of the COVID-19 Pandemic
We must not ignore the suffering that this pandemic and our collective response to it have inflicted on millions of fellow citizens.
We must not ignore the suffering that this pandemic and our collective response to it have inflicted on millions of fellow citizens.
The top Democrats originally supported a $2.2 trillion measure.
Steve Adler attended his daughter's 20-person wedding and then traveled with out-of-state family and friends.
Using police to forcefully shut down Mac's Public House is a violation of liberty and a waste of resources.
Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.
It's not like we're in the middle of a pandemic or anything, right?
D.C.'s public transit agency has already received close to $1 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds.
Especially if the COVID-19 inoculations are deployed speedily and accepted widely.
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How pandemics joined war, terrorism, crime, and economic depression in the toolbox for ratcheting up government
Restaurant owners speak out about the "crippling" order, which will last at least three weeks.
In a year that will be remembered for a deadly pandemic that shut down parts of the economy and cost millions of people their jobs, here's one silver lining.
"If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all."
We're expected to suffer discomfort, economic pain, and emotional distress or else pay fines or serve jail time. Government officials, meanwhile, take offense when called out for violating the standards they created.
The New York Times columnist misconstrues the issues at stake in the challenge to New York's restrictions on houses of worship.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo described his policy as a "fear-driven response," cut by a "hatchet" rather than a "scalpel."
The mayor is traveling to Mississippi to spend the holiday with his wife and daughter.
There's more evidence that community use of facial coverings is an effective tool for curbing COVID-19 transmission.
By arbitrarily foreclosing relatively safe social and recreational options, politicians encourage defiance, resentment, and riskier substitutes.
Blood test study finds that only about 10 percent of Americans are immune to the virus.
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Both new vaccines were developed at firms established by immigrants or their children. It's a dramatic example of the enormous benefits of international freedom of movement.
The New York governor is getting a shiny award for playing a good governor on TV.
If governments stand in the way of vaccine production and distribution for the world market, the costs will be high in lives and in wealth.
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It's not like we didn't know that we had a problem.
"Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term."
After violating his own rules, California's governor offers deceitful excuses and announces new restrictions for the little people.
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But masks are still likely to prevent infected people from transmitting the virus.
That makes the disease much deadlier than the seasonal flu but not nearly as deadly as modelers initially assumed.
Before putting testing rules in place, officials should have considered whether the public would be willing and able to comply.
Companies plan to seek emergency use authorization from the FDA almost immediately.
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The case gives SCOTUS another chance to enforce constitutional limits on disease control measures.
Job losses and business closures loom as more cities and states once again shut down their hospitality industries.
The incoming administration opposes the death penalty, but the Justice Department has three more executions planned this year.
As the coronavirus reshapes daily life, two Reason editors crisscross the country and describe what they’ve seen.
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That's Judge John Sinatra (W.D.N.Y.), holding that a N.Y. restriction on live music was unconstitutional.
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Legal responses to this fall's surge in new cases, like last spring's lockdowns, are frequently illogical and unscientific.
Hang in there, folks. Help looks to be on the way.