Established makers of N95 masks are ramping up production as fast as they can. New manufacturers hoping to help meet demand are running into regulatory roadblocks.
Puerto Rico is temporarily free from Buy American restrictions on crucial protective medical gear thanks to FEMA.
Restrictions have been loosened to help ramp up production.
Emergency restrictions should always be lifted as soon as the crisis has sufficiently abated.
No time to waste; do it sooner rather than later.
The media can reasonably blame Trump for a lot of things. This is not one of them.
Robert Lighthizer, head of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, says tariffs aren't hurting America's response to the virus. He's also lifting those tariffs to help with the response.
Plus: the pandemic in prisons, pushback on Trump's prescription for economic rebound, and more...
The contagious spread of information is in a race against the contagious spread of coronavirus.
Lawyers, inmates' families, and correctional officers worry the jail is ill-prepared to handle an outbreak.
The Reason Roundtable podcast looks at the crappy track record of government policy forged in crisis.
When the state controls the media and foreign reporters are banned, outsiders should be wary of information they’re getting from inside China.
The public transit bailout is spiraling out of control.
The mortality rate is much lower than the official numbers suggest, and adaptive behavior affects the transmission rate.
Private-sector efforts to fill the testing vacuum run afoul of bureaucracy.
What's dangerous is not trusting people with the truth.
Jail officials urge more and faster releases as the virus spreads between staff and inmates.
The government botched the early response to coronavirus, so why expect it to grow in competence now?
When this is all over, don’t expect politicians to lose their taste for ordering us around.
Lawmakers are still seeking a compromise.
Congress should loudly and unanimously reject this insanity.
The coronavirus outbreak offers another view of the limits of central planning.
Especially during a pandemic, Americans need access to healthy food.
Under current Supreme Court precedent, the answer is almost always going to be "no." But some compensation may be morally imperative, even if not legally required.
Much-maligned single-use plastics make a comeback in a newly germaphobic nation.
New York's governor insists his edict "mandating that 100% of the workforce must stay home" is "not a shelter-in-place order."
Their complaints shut down an important pandemic-fighting tool. Fortunately, a substitute plan has been found.
Make this incredible service to America permanently legal.
The big unknown is how many people are infected but aren't counted in the official numbers because their symptoms are mild or nonexistent.
A big contraction was followed by a bustling aftermath—but with notable negative long-term effects as well.
If this is to respond to a temporary crisis, why do these powers last for two years?
The spread of COVID-19 is making once unthinkably extreme policies seem like the least bad option.
Religious liberty, public health, and the police powers of the states
The extension allows some individuals and businesses to keep more of their money for three extra months at a time when millions of Americans are likely to be out of work and struggling to make ends meet.
Thought during an epidemic from a defender of freedom
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
Tucker Carlson: "There is no greater moral crime than betraying your country in a time of crisis, and that appears to be what happened."
The new plan seeks to help an economy decimated by the coronavirus.
The coronavirus is going to crater tax revenues and hike spending. And the Congressional Budget Office says the deficit was going to exceed $1 trillion even before all that.
Vladimir Putin insists he has control of the situation. Don't believe him.
Public transit was already in decline before the COVID-19 outbreak. Now transit agencies are teetering on the brink of collapse.
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