The pandemic has served as a nice reminder of the merits of federalism, where states are the laboratories of democracy that can try regulatory approaches that conform to local attitudes and conditions.
Suffice it to say, the pandemic did not lead to great childhood independence policies.
Joe Biden promised to do better by migrants upon taking office, but he fell short in 2021.
The union is preparing to strike if its demands are not met.
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
And we would be better citizens if we called him out for it more.
Vaccination and prior infection induce a strong second line of immunological defense, finds South African study.
The findings reinforce the case for nicotine vaping products as a harm-reducing alternative to cigarettes.
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
While this is a problem, it's not one that scrapping Section 230 would solve.
It sucked for avoidable reasons.
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
Focusing on infections rather than severe disease is more misleading than ever.
Should the no-fly list include another 70 million Americans?
Canadian officials recognize that immigrants are key to the post-COVID economic recovery. The U.S. should take note.
As the NFL goes, so goes the nation?
Financial pressure is the main reason why people say they move, and pandemic-era public policy created a lot more financial pressure in certain places.
“We essentially reorganized our society around the control of a single infectious disease, when in fact, health is plural," says Stanford professor of health policy Jay Bhattacharya.
Farewell to a Biden White House messaging strategy that was terrible long before Omicron
Rochelle Walensky willfully ignores the weaknesses of a study she repeatedly cited to justify "universal masking" of students.
Also vaccine boosters reduce risk of symptomatic infection by nearly 60 percent
No wonder the federal budget is so out of whack.
This Brooklyn-bred New York Post columnist and her family are fleeing to Florida due to bad education policy and COVID mismanagement.
It's another case of bureaucratic incompetence as the omicron wave surges.
"Any time you have government dogma saying they are science, or government bureaucrats who claim that 'this is the one and perfect truth'…we should run headlong away."
Christmas comes a few days early for 2,800 inmates who had told they’d eventually have to return to their cells to serve out their terms.
The president rightly points out that the federal government has sloshed billions of dollars to make K-12 schools even safer than they already were. Yet many are about to close.
Plus: Criminals have stolen $100 billion in pandemic relief funds, and colleges are planning to go virtual once again.
As omicron surges, the president urges everyone to get vaccinated and boosted.
When we decide to stop paying attention to it, say two authors in the health care journal BMJ.
Maybe we don't need to wear them?
Researchers are still uncertain about how severe the variant will be.
Plus: Swearing increased during the pandemic, progressives want to see the Build Back Better agenda enacted by executive fiat, and more...
The argument hinges largely on what makes an emergency standard "necessary."
Time to stop pretending
The White House COVID-19 advisor and his ilk admit they will never let some mitigation measures expire.
On Monday, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that the city would be reimposing a mask mandate for all indoor public spaces in the District of Columbia.
Plus: The pragmatic approach to omicron is emerging, lumber prices are skyrocketing again, and more...
The question of whether to stay the BIden Administration rule requiring large employers to mandate vaccinations or testing is now before the Supreme Court.
George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle
George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle
The state’s “reforms” have saddled merchants with oppressively expensive permitting demands.
The Supreme Court has asked for responses to the federal government's stay request.
Federal regulators have permanently lifted a requirement that mifepristone be dispensed in person.
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