Shanghai's Lockdowns Result in Starvation and Quarantine Enforcers Being Attacked
More than 25 million people remain locked down in Shanghai, with Guangzhou—a city of 18 million—looking primed to follow.
More than 25 million people remain locked down in Shanghai, with Guangzhou—a city of 18 million—looking primed to follow.
The ordeal highlights how collective bargaining in the public sphere has stacked almost every factor against alleged victims of police misconduct.
"I know the CDC is working to develop a scientific framework," says Ashish K. Jha
The court based its decision on the US Supreme Court's 2021 decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid.
As officials forcibly separate parents from their COVID-positive children, criticism of the CCP mounts.
Four economists at the Federal Reserve say America's high rate of inflation relative to the rest of the world is the result of surging disposable income during the pandemic.
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The Biden Administration will push student loan repayment until late summer.
Higher egg prices are not a crisis in the middle of a pandemic full of supply problems.
"People's irrational fears are taking over these policy decisions," says one parent.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu seems hellbent on making things difficult or impossible for city restaurants.
Cameras and tracking technology purchased to battle COVID-19 will be a lingering affliction.
Some want to solve the problem with subsidies for gas, housing, child care, and more. That only risks greater stagnation.
"In practical terms, COVID-19 poses zero threat to the G.W. community."
Ridership is dismally depressed and a federal mask mandate for straphangers remains stubbornly in place.
The lawsuit raises some of the same issues as earlier successful challenges against the CDC's eviction moratorium. But, in this case, the federal government has a stronger legal rationale for its policies.
A.B. 2179 would stop some local-level eviction moratoriums from going into effect, while leaving untouched ones that have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic.
The president's new budget plan calls on Congress to tax wealthy Americans' unrealized capital gains.
Life is returning to "normal" after two years, but that normal includes even fewer limits on executive powers.
If the rules don't apply to everyone, they ought not apply to anyone.
The eviction moratorium and Title 42 "public health" expulsion cases have many parallels that may have been ignored because of their differing ideological valence. Both strengthen the case for nondeferential judicial review of the exercise of emergency powers.
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There are no public health gains from booting kids out of the country.
Inmates with opioid addiction suffered severe withdrawal after the Jefferson County Correctional Facility stripped them of their medication.
Meanwhile the FDA dawdles over second boosters as new COVID-19 wave approaches
“We believe in parents' rights and that the best decisions regarding medical treatment options for children are made by parents.”
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Q&A with Dr. Vinay Prasad, a practicing hematologist-oncologist and associate professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco
More evidence that the public health bureaucracy dropped the ball when a once-in-a-generation pandemic hit.
Congress used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to throw money around in ways that would be comedic if the results weren't so tragic.
Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling.
The same agency that brought us security theater continues to enforce a rule that never made sense.
The White House's latest attempt to scapegoat rising prices ignores everything that happened before the past three weeks.
But the bill is still a mess.
The city's private employer vaccine mandate is not just an overreaching policy; it's now a completely nonsensical and ineffective one.
The essayist and cultural critic talked about her new book Love in the Time of Contagion, at a live event in New York City.
The court ruled the CDC can continue to use its public health power to expel migrants, but not to countries where they are likely to face persecution or torture.
The record number of reduced sentences still represented a tiny share of the federal prison population.
The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.
The punishment is a bit rich considering the government's own mishandling of pandemic cash.