New Test Data Show That COVID School Closures Rapidly Accelerated U.S. Learning Losses
Nearly two years after most children returned to the classroom, educational losses continue to grow.
Nearly two years after most children returned to the classroom, educational losses continue to grow.
Spiked's leading polemicist defends J.K. Rowling, Brexit, and Enlightenment values of free speech and pluralism.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
Confirmation of Wuhan scientists as "patients zero" makes the lab leak theory look likely—and the misinformation police look like fools.
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Some of the points made by Rabbi Yitzhak Grossman in the course of assessing the issue under Jewish law have broader significance, as well.
Letting third parties pay our bills pushes prices higher and limits our options.
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A new Associated Press analysis of government data suggests 10 percent of all COVID aid was lost to fraud or theft. That figure will likely grow.
A new study has found that the more schools kept kids online, the worse their pass rates on state standardized tests were.
Drug tests for new moms are "unnecessary and nonconsensual," argues the ACLU.
Projections of huge savings are making the rounds. Nothing could be further from the truth.
A new review suggests modest incentives appear to have positive effects on vaccine uptake.
The new law dictates a life sentence for anyone caught having gay sex and the death penalty for anyone convicted of "aggravated homosexuality."
The Rubin Report host makes the case for the Florida governor, who courageously defied lockdowns but is quick to use the state to punish corporations he doesn't like.
But there were still 47,573 more births last year than there were in 2020.
The organization has a long history of pushing bogus anti-tobacco claims.
South Carolina will now only require a certificate of need for long-term care facilities, opening the health care market to smaller providers.
A study suggests that "selectively targeting large-scale drug vendors" on the dark web can succeed where all previous enforcement efforts have failed.
The state’s Supreme Court strikes down an absurd, unneeded occupational licensing demand.
Even taking all the money from every billionaire wouldn't cover our coming bankruptcy.
Whether the putative target is the "biomedical security state," wokeness, "Big Tech censors," or Chinese Communists, the presidential candidate’s grandstanding poses a clear threat to individual rights.
The few good studies on teen depression and social media undercut attempts to establish causal connections between the two.
Memorial Day ushers in the unofficial start of summer. But if your pool is missing lifeguards, issues with immigration may be the culprit.
A lawyer for the family speculates that jail officials balked at the medication's high price.
The number surged during the pandemic.
Most cancer diagnoses and deaths are due to cancers for which there are no recommended screening tests.
The U.S. tax system is extremely progressive, even compared to European countries—whose governments rely on taxing the middle class.
A new report calls for policy makers to take action when none is required.
Sometimes he calls for freedom, and sometimes he preaches something darker.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch highlights a vital lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than 3,000 Americans die each year waiting for a bone marrow donor. Be the Match still refuses to compensate donors.
The right and the left are pushing pro-natalist polices that have never worked and are deeply misguided.
The imminent expiration of a law that recriminalized drug possession triggered a bipartisan panic.
"Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country," Gorsuch wrote. That might be an exaggeration, but it isn't far off.
The harm caused by marijuana abuse does not justify reverting to an oppressive policy that criminalized peaceful conduct.
Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars last year's midterms meddling in Republican primaries. Republicans may now be borrowing a page from their playbook.
If so, the network failed to enforce the supposed rule before and after cancelling its top-rated host.
Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion about the limits of population control with Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Scott Winship.
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Why the businessman launched a long shot campaign for the presidency.
The former president reminds us that claiming unbridled executive power is a bipartisan tendency.
The stay is only temporary, and could be quickly lifted. But it's still a negative sign for the plaintiffs in the case.
Two leading experts explain how legalizing organ markets can fix the problem, thereby saving tens of thousands of lives each year, and greatly reducing the suffering of patients on the kidney waiting list.
The lawsuit claims that the pause has cost taxpayers "$160 billion and counting."
The longer we wait to address our debt, the more painful it will be.
Why won’t the FDA allow women to buy a safer product without requiring a doctor’s visit that medical experts think is unnecessary?