Crypto Creator: Puzzle #14
"Prince's twin, in a Mark Twain tale"
Entitlement reform has long been considered a third rail in American politics, but that perspective might be changing.
The FDA is unnecessarily making your life more difficult.
A new Government Accountability Office report notes that of 24 federal agencies, none of their headquarters are more than half-staffed on an average day.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
The propensity of prosecutors to jump to conclusions before all the evidence is in is very destructive—and nothing new.
The notion that COVID-19 came from a lab was once touted as misinformation. But now the FBI, the Energy Department, and others agree with Paul.
The justices agreed to consider whether the Biden administration's efforts to suppress online "misinformation" were unconstitutional.
But that decision seems to violate federal law.
Higher rates lead to more debt, and more debt begets higher rates, and on and on. Get the picture?
Social media overuse among teens may be a symptom, not the cause, of their distress.
The Golden State's new rules—which Pennsylvania's Environmental Quality Board opted to copy—will increase the cost of a new truck by about one-third.
A sketchy conjectural hypothesis was transmogrified into a dubious dietary dogma.
Well over half of those funds remain unspent, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Especially because the once-dismissed possibility of rising rates is now a reality.
The government has doubled down on failed policies, citing deeply flawed studies and misrepresenting data.
Several federal judges had expressed skepticism about the constitutionality of penalizing physicians for departing from a government-defined "consensus."
In light of the state's marijuana reforms, the court says, the odor of weed is not enough to establish probable cause.
The Department of Defense spent $1.2 billion on furniture between 2020 and 2022, although it only uses 23 percent of its office space.
Those sounding the loudest alarms about possible shutdowns are largely silent when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded.
The SAFER Banking Act is trying to address dual legality of cannabis laws between the federal government and the 38 states that have some form of legal cannabis.
A study found a "high rate of substitution" between vapes and cigarettes, suggesting that policies aimed at preventing underage use are undermining public health.
Well-intentioned restricitons on selling vaping products with non-tobacco flavors could have dire unintended consequences.
The Republican presidential candidate ignores the lethal impact of the drug policies he avidly supports.
More than 1 in 3 Florida foster kids over 13 is taking psychotropic medications, but the state often doesn't follow rules requiring it to keep records of prescriptions.
The researchers reached a similar conclusion about overdose trends in Washington, where penalties for simple possession were reduced in 2021.
"These policies are motivated by good intentions. But that doesn't mean that the consequences of these policies will turn out well."
Prohibition is at the root of the hazards that have led to record numbers of opioid-related deaths.
A new survey shows that, following the pandemic boom in homeschooling, homeschool families are more diverse and less religious.
The attacks on Sweden's laissez faire approach were shortsighted, says the Cato Institute senior fellow.
Medicare's new price-setting process for drug purchases is better than its current one if the result is lower government spending.
Yoel Roth worries about government meddling in content moderation, except when Democrats target "misinformation."
The big spending has fueled higher inflation, resulted in larger-than-projected deficits, and contributed to a record level of debt.
It's not the first time that has happened, but there are key differences about what happened this year.
The United States currently supplies about 70 percent of the plasma used to manufacture therapies for the entire world.
Join Reason on YouTube on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion with Johan Norberg about his recent policy analysis of Sweden's decision to forgo lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
States that allow home chefs to sell perishable foods report no confirmed cases of relevant foodborne illness.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
Aaron Kheriaty, author of The New Abnormal, examines the persistent COVID mandates for K-12 schools, college campuses, and health care settings.
America’s biggest fiscal challenge lies in the unchecked growth of federal health care and old-age entitlement programs.
Legal restrictions on pseudoephedrine have not reduced meth use, but they have driven people with colds or allergies toward substitutes that seem to be completely ineffective.
The former Texas governor on helping veterans with PTSD, increasing legal immigration, and the illegal drug he'd most like to try
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern this Thursday for a discussion with Aaron Kheriaty, author of The New Abnormal about the persistent COVID mandates for K-12 schools, college campuses and health care settings.
No response to authoritarian government actions is quicker or more reliable than non-compliance.
The city wanted to bring in more money, in part for early childhood education. But such taxes are disproportionately paid by the poor.