COVID-19 Is No Excuse for Suspicionless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border
The coronavirus is not in your phone. Why should it be used to justify border searches?
The coronavirus is not in your phone. Why should it be used to justify border searches?
Falling demand and strict social distancing requirements are leaving many restaurants with no path to profitability.
Members of Congress may have benefited from small business funds, and government watchdogs are warning that the program appears susceptible to fraud.
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Protesters in many countries may find themselves facing down state forces with extralegal powers and a muzzled press.
An economic response to COVID-19 that's fiscally responsible.
Our leaders and institutions are failing us spectacularly. It's up to us to reboot society.
New infections are down nationwide but rising in some places as people rebel against government-recommended precautions.
What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
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The government granted a temporary waiver allowing drone-based deliveries of medical supplies in North Carolina. That shouldn't end when the pandemic does.
In a matter of weeks, the number of inmates in solitary jumped from 60,000 to nearly 300,000.
Apple and Google’s API promises to put privacy first. State health authorities have other ideas.
Michael Thompson is serving a 40- to 60-year sentence for a pot crime in a state where both recreational and medicinal marijuana are currently legal
Regulators ought to take a scalpel to the many burdensome rules still on the books.
The Small Business Administration will always fail the people it's meant to help.
The decision says the "unbridled and unfettered consolidation of authority in one unelected official" violates due process and the separation of powers.
Airborne transmission is the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says that information is confidential. Government watchdogs say that excuse is bogus.
All that accomplishes is encouraging us to view our fellow Americans as enemies, to see ourselves as members of warring tribes rather than citizens of a nation.
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Early COVID lockdown effects show no significant increases in most crime. In most cases, there were drops.
"My mask protects you, your mask protects me"
The health department correctly recognizes that abstinence doesn't work, and kissing is riskier than sex.
West Virginia and Delaware are letting citizens vote via their phones and tablets. Security experts warn the tech is still risky.
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Should we intentionally expose willing participants to the coronavirus?
Two new studies create counterfactual pandemic scenarios seeking to answer that question.
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Physician Marty Makary vs. epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski on whether "the lockdown saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives."
A New York State Judge has ruled that the twin crises of civic unrest and coronavirus justify holding people without charge beyond the normal 24-hour limit.
Professor Balkin asked me many great questions in interview just published at his Balkinization blog.
In the age of coronavirus, they are a danger to the lives of people both inside them and outside.
The phased reopenings happening around the country are becoming increasingly arbitrary.
Sometime in 2021, the American people will be presented with a reorganized and newly empowered federal public health bureaucracy. As time passes, it will grow in size and scope.
Since meager testing resources left officials ignorant of crucial facts about the epidemic, they made policy decisions without the evidence necessary to assess their proportionality.
The flexibility will allow food makers to substitute small amounts of food ingredients temporarily without necessitating the creation or use of a new food label.
How we lost our social spaces and how we found them again
The antimalarial drug is being removed from United Kingdom's RECOVERY trial evaluating COVID-19 therapies.
Physician Marty Makary vs. epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski on whether "the lockdown saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives."
If Congress extends boosted temporary unemployment benefits into early 2021, nearly five out of every six beneficiaries would be earning more money by not working.
Even after government had imposed an almost unfathomable level of intervention on the economy, the markets are chugging along much better than expected.