'Lockdown' and 'Liberation' Aren't America's Only Choices
We need to think of more targeted approaches to protect high-risk people and our freedoms.
We need to think of more targeted approaches to protect high-risk people and our freedoms.
We need essential workers right now. We also need markets and the price signals they provide.
Varying state responses will provide the thing we need most right now: information.
The coronavirus pandemic should certainly occasion more prudence at the Pentagon in strategy and spending alike.
"You can't exactly eat with a mask on, and I have a small space where people would be in close proximity to each other."
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No, the United States is still not able to test all those that it should.
Around the world, governments are taking advantage of COVID-19 to tighten the screws on their subjects.
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County offices and courts are closed for COVID-19, but the jails are full.
Infectious disease, public health, and the Constitution
Those claiming that the pandemic means Trump's restrictions are here to stay, regardless of the November elections, are being too pessimistic.
New funding and new powers haven't made government bureaucracies more competent.
If officials want to ease the burden of the pandemic behind bars, there are hundreds of thousands of inmates who can help them do it.
The similarities between the image and totalitarian propaganda of old are unmistakable. But we all have bigger things to worry about right now.
If politicians really want to help citizens, they should brush up on the laws of supply and demand.
Despite a contrary argument by Prof. Enrique Guerra-Pujol, Kelo doesn't even address the relevant issue.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed roughly as many Americans as died in Vietnam. But the war metaphor serves mostly to sweep aside skepticism and dodge difficult questions.
Promising randomized controlled trial results indicate the drug shortens time to recovery
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And those numbers are likely an undercount.
While official death tolls clearly underestimate the epidemic's impact, total mortality numbers can be misleading.
The federal government has given states permission to open up highway rest stops to food truck service. Many are deciding to keep their protectionist bans in place.
On the same day Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews came out for a funeral, hundreds were gathering elsewhere in New York City to watch a military flyover.
Americans will survive the virus, but American political life is sicker than ever.
Some officials want to reevaluate enforcement of low-level, nonviolent offenses during the pandemic. For others, it's business as usual.
When social distancing means no gatherings larger than a reelection donor dinner.
Andrea Circle Bear was serving a 2-year sentence for a nonviolent drug crime.
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Unprecedented live audio streaming of oral arguments could signal more openness.
Also included is an "alternative facts" narrative of federal government testing screw-ups since January.
A Home School legal defense group calls it "a terrible thing and a waste of time."
It's time to push back on arbitrary classifications that punish businesses and customers alike without clearly helping public health.
Barr: "The Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis."
But testing remains a key issue in some of those states.
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Absurd enforcement of liquor regulations harms public health efforts.
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Younger people aren't immune to the coronavirus but they are less likely to die or be hospitalized because of it. Let them choose their own risk.
Amid growing unrest, oil-dependent nations may have no choice but to open their economies.
Link's adventure in a doomed world of masks and sorrows will resonate with gamers currently under coronavirus lockdown.
Readers may be better served by a newspaper that is open about its reporters' opinions. But then it can hardly object when Trump publicly describes them as political opponents.
Lockdown enforcement is becoming more authoritarian.
In a time of health crisis, government has proven to be a crippling underlying condition.
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