It's obvious that there will be more government spending in response to the coronavirus, but distinguishing the essential from the nice-to-have is more important than ever.
Transit wonks are debating which mode of transportation was most responsible for the country's worst COVID-19 outbreak.
After an unexpected experience with different approaches to learning, many families won’t want to return to business as usual.
"The more we lock down the economy, the more we harm those individuals who are most vulnerable, who don't have the cash cushions or the white-collar jobs that allow them to keep going."
Trump: "We'll take a look at that. We're always willing to take a look."
While denying Donald Trump's dictatorial impulses, William Barr notes that public health emergencies do not give governments unlimited powers.
Fears of contracting COVID-19 in prison are not enough, Justice Department says
Despite economic ruin in their native country, Venezuelans have no reason to stay in increasingly locked-down Colombia.
It will not protect American jobs or health during this pandemic.
Plus: U.S. death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 45,000, Trump threatens Iran via Twitter, and more....
Politicians rush to limit our choices in the name of "keeping us safe."
Evidence that the virus is much less deadly than people feared weakens the case for maintaining lockdowns.
The deal primarily sets aside $320 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses.
"What they are doing to people is cruel and unusual. It isn't right."
A New York Times analysis has little bearing on the infection fatality rate or the number of life-years typically lost to the disease.
The war between Openers and Closers shouldn't be seen as a fight between idiot death-worshippers and unnecessarily frightened tyrants.
Rough calculations from two preliminary population screening studies in California.
Urbanist Joel Kotkin says the pandemic will accelerate America's urban decline. Richard Florida is "100 percent convinced" NYC will be just fine.
The local police department says "a garage sale/yard sale is not an essential business and should not be open for business."
Plus: New York legalizes Zoom weddings, federal labeling laws exacerbate grocery store shortages, and more...
The tests indicate that the number of infections in the county is around 40 times as high as the number of confirmed cases.
And Georgia will reopen select businesses beginning April 24.
The company says it will return the money after it was announced that the Paycheck Protection Program ran out of funding.
The FDA has relaxed some labeling laws in order to allow restaurants to sell groceries, but it could do more.
The Reason Roundtable podcast delivers a mixed verdict.
This proposal might work, but it's doubtful that our politicians and president are competent enough to pull it off.
The Minnesota congresswoman's proposal to cancel rents and mortgages during the coronavirus pandemic is both wildly impractical and constitutionally dubious.
Massachusetts is the only state that has closed recreational outlets while allowing medical sales to continue.
"Unless government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook," a company spokesperson tells Reason.
The White House announced a temporary suspension of tariff payments as a way to stimulate the American economy, but the relief will not apply to tariffs on steel, aluminum, or imports from China.
The article explains why the coronavirus crisis does not justify weakening constitutional limits on federal government power.
Government officials’ disdain for personal liberty and economic pain drive Americans to the streets.
People around the world are working together in unprecedented ways to help their neighbors and produce critical medical supplies.
Plus: Drudge challenges Trump on traffic claims, France taxes links, COVID-19 in Ohio prisons, and more...
The gatherings are ill-advised but understandable given the harms of government-enforced shutdowns.
An emergency room doctor talks about working the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Jeremy S. Faust talks about battling COVID-19 in the emergency room and how to safely reopen American society.
It seems unlikely that most Americans who owe fines for petty crimes will be in a better position to pay them in 60 to 90 days.
Possible really good news from a population screening antibody test study in Santa Clara County, California
Clarifying the prevalence and lethality of the virus will require wide testing that goes beyond a single rural county.
The inability of the federal government, and the president specifically, to deliver reliable and consistent information to the American public will make economic recovery more difficult.
These subsidies were a bad deal for taxpayers even in good times. In the midst of a global pandemic, they're devastating.
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
There’s a lot of debate over the Swedish model of coronavirus response, but there are good reasons to think a Hippocratic approach to policy may pay off.
Politicians aren't the only crafty ones.
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