The new bill includes another round of stimulus checks for all Americans, funds additional coronavirus testing, and spends billions to bail out states and government agencies straining under pension debt.
They even sent an ambulance, because it's not like there's anything else going on in New York.
Congress expanded compassionate release to allow inmates to petition judges, but federal prosecutors tried to use plea bargain agreements to subvert reforms, the judge says.
CNN badly misreported a Gallup poll.
What might learning to live with COVID-19 look like?
Plus: Most people started practicing social distancing well before the government forced them, Elon Musk plans to defy lockdown orders, and more...
Giving renters direct assistance is a better idea than rent cancelation, but that's not saying much.
If you think much about the epidemic remains uncertain, The New York Times warns, you might be part of "the virus 'truther' movement."
The Reason Roundtable discusses eternal New Deals, multi-trillion-dollar mistakes, and sobbing face-first in the parking lot of life. Happy Monday!
Officials in six Pennsylvania counties say they will allow businesses to reopen without permission from the state government. Expect more of that.
That has interesting implications for where people will base themselves in the future.
"I think you'll find that I'm the normal guy, the regular guy," Amash told HBO's Real Time host. "These other two guys are the buffoons."
Center for Immigration Studies' Mark Krikorian debates George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan on immigration and coronavirus.
The ability of Americans to buy meat in grocery stores is at risk due to serious supply-chain issues caused by COVID-19.
Making businesses close early will not stop the spread of COVID-19.
No amount of psychoanalyzing can disguise the grim choice facing voters this fall.
The federal government has done a terrible job managing the coronavirus. It doesn't deserve our labor.
Andrew I. Friedson says they flattened the curve. Lyman Stone disagrees.
The Center for Immigration Studies' Mark Krikorian vs. George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan
The tradeoffs among considerations of health, prosperity, and liberty are catching up with us even if we don't want to acknowledge them.
The state can have all the capacity it needs and still get things badly wrong.
Plus: tax revolts, Mrs. America, sex-worker comedy, reopening poll, and more...
In a nation of edicts, we serve at the pleasure of the king.
Volunteers would earn cash for the risks they take on our behalf.
To the NYPD, everything still looks like a nail.
Gov. Greg Abbott made the change after a Dallas salon owner was jailed for reopening her salon.
Even the president is a better moral philosopher than New York's governor.
The anti-prostitution pledge is unconstitutional when applied to U.S. nonprofits. But the feds say it's still OK to compel speech from these groups' foreign affiliates.
The federal courts start to grapple with COVID-19 shutdown orders.
The USPS has lost $78 billion since 2007, but could lose as much as $13 billion this year as the pandemic has crushed mail volume.
After failing to frame Robert Mueller, Elizabeth Warren, and others for sexual misconduct, the infamous Trumpster hoaxers tried to go after Fauci. But the woman they hired to play the victim had second thoughts.
The president is pushing the same protectionist policies he has always favored.
Considering Stormtroopers aren't known for their aim, the police had nothing to fear.
Some lawmakers allege that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has overstepped the bounds of her authority.
Stanford researcher Tina White and the new nonprofit Covid Watch are committed to protecting both individual rights and public health.
Empty displays of ritual militarism are always a waste of time, money, and goodwill, but especially during a pandemic.
A lawsuit filed yesterday by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra accuses the companies of misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors.
Cheap accurate testing would enable the safe reopening of the U.S. economy.
Not everything that states do in the name of protecting public health is consistent with the Constitution.
Texas salons are allowed to reopen on Friday. Shelley Luther will be sitting in jail.
The 1961 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower foreshadowed the current government's response to COVID-19.
A renewed push to pass the PRIME Act picks up steam as COVID-19 leaves us all asking “Where’s the beef?”
Global manufacturing is an intricate ecosystem of specialized players, their fates closely intertwined.
The candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination talks with the Fifth Column podcast about coronavirus, constitutionalism, open-carry protests in Michigan, and how his own House Freedom Caucus was corrupted.
While governments are shutting down religious services and fining pastors who defy those orders.
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