What Each Side of the COVID-19 Debate Should Understand About the Other
The war between Openers and Closers shouldn't be seen as a fight between idiot death-worshippers and unnecessarily frightened tyrants.
The war between Openers and Closers shouldn't be seen as a fight between idiot death-worshippers and unnecessarily frightened tyrants.
Rough calculations from two preliminary population screening studies in California.
Urbanist Joel Kotkin says the pandemic will accelerate America's urban decline. Richard Florida is "100 percent convinced" NYC will be just fine.
The local police department says "a garage sale/yard sale is not an essential business and should not be open for business."
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The tests indicate that the number of infections in the county is around 40 times as high as the number of confirmed cases.
And Georgia will reopen select businesses beginning April 24.
The company says it will return the money after it was announced that the Paycheck Protection Program ran out of funding.
The FDA has relaxed some labeling laws in order to allow restaurants to sell groceries, but it could do more.
The Reason Roundtable podcast delivers a mixed verdict.
This proposal might work, but it's doubtful that our politicians and president are competent enough to pull it off.
The Minnesota congresswoman's proposal to cancel rents and mortgages during the coronavirus pandemic is both wildly impractical and constitutionally dubious.
Massachusetts is the only state that has closed recreational outlets while allowing medical sales to continue.
"Unless government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook," a company spokesperson tells Reason.
The White House announced a temporary suspension of tariff payments as a way to stimulate the American economy, but the relief will not apply to tariffs on steel, aluminum, or imports from China.
The article explains why the coronavirus crisis does not justify weakening constitutional limits on federal government power.
Government officials’ disdain for personal liberty and economic pain drive Americans to the streets.
People around the world are working together in unprecedented ways to help their neighbors and produce critical medical supplies.
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The gatherings are ill-advised but understandable given the harms of government-enforced shutdowns.
An emergency room doctor talks about working the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Jeremy S. Faust talks about battling COVID-19 in the emergency room and how to safely reopen American society.
It seems unlikely that most Americans who owe fines for petty crimes will be in a better position to pay them in 60 to 90 days.
Possible really good news from a population screening antibody test study in Santa Clara County, California
Clarifying the prevalence and lethality of the virus will require wide testing that goes beyond a single rural county.
The inability of the federal government, and the president specifically, to deliver reliable and consistent information to the American public will make economic recovery more difficult.
These subsidies were a bad deal for taxpayers even in good times. In the midst of a global pandemic, they're devastating.
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
There’s a lot of debate over the Swedish model of coronavirus response, but there are good reasons to think a Hippocratic approach to policy may pay off.
Politicians aren't the only crafty ones.
City officials have asked NYPD to reduce arrests since there's a global pandemic happening. The commissioner said he'd do no such thing.
The congresswoman claimed that Amazon is "refusing to provide basic protective equipment to workers." That's not true.
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Government agencies and public utilities are the most preposterous examples of stasis. The coronavirus might force them, finally, to innovate and join the modern world.
"A national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term situation," Trump said Thursday evening. "We are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time."
STAT reports leaked comments of University of Chicago researcher
Dr. Oz deserves criticism, but he was clumsily referencing a real—and actually encouraging—scientific study.
"The best available evidence does not support the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19."
No, they’re not frontline ventilators. Yes, they’re useful.
The president contemplates a sweeping exercise of executive authority.
Some protestors were nasty and went overboard, but her harsh tactics will sap her legitimacy at a critical juncture.
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Sometimes pressure causes breakdowns, but sometimes it causes breakthroughs.
Bogus lawsuits threaten medical professionals who are fighting on the front lines against COVID-19.
The government has broad emergency powers, but that doesn't mean the Constitution is suspended.