As SCOTUS declines to issue an injunction, the chief justice says the state's COVID-19 control measures seem consistent with the First Amendment.
Top-down, one-size-fits-few mandates are recipes for conflict.
Two models generate strikingly different estimates.
Supreme Court precedent suggests COVID-19 restrictions that discriminate against churches are presumptively unconstitutional.
The health crisis revealed red tape that hobbles our lives even in good times.
Control measures should be based on emerging evidence about the danger posed by the virus.
Competent responses to the crisis have come from people and organizations voluntarily helping each other and themselves.
That rate is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that shaped the government response to the epidemic.
All of it, The New York Times assumes.
Studies from several countries find low infection rates.
The disease control agency is a poster child for bureaucratic incompetence.
But if a shot becomes available, there's a good chance more people will choose to vaccinate without a government mandate.
The ruling says the state's top health official exceeded her statutory authority by ordering "nonessential" businesses to close.
When mask-wearing and social distancing rules are legally enforceable, the potential for violence cannot be avoided.
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Courts are beginning to recognize that public health powers, while broad, are not a blank check.
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The infection fatality rate probably varies from one place to another.
When will Americans learn?
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Sensible social distancing does not require staying in your house.
Staying inside forever and going back to normal today aren't the only choices.
Tracing where people have been and who they’ve met can be effective for battling disease. But, oh boy, does it lend itself to abuse.
A seemingly arcane dispute about administrative law has profound implications for the limits of public health authority.
Spending nearly 14 times as much on the CDC as we did in 1987 did not, apparently, help the agency combat the biggest disease threat America has faced in a century.
Is COVID-19 bringing the mythology of America as a nation of immigrants to an end? Q&A with The New York Times' Jia Lynn Yang
Unless you are especially dedicated to seeing the world and willing to run a gauntlet of hassles to do so, travel is poised to become a more local activity.
An Illinois resident obtained a TRO by citing a 30-day limit, while a New Hampshire hair salon owner says the goal of her state's lockdown has been achieved.
If you think much about the epidemic remains uncertain, The New York Times warns, you might be part of "the virus 'truther' movement."
The tradeoffs among considerations of health, prosperity, and liberty are catching up with us even if we don't want to acknowledge them.
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.
Stanford researcher Tina White and the new nonprofit Covid Watch are committed to protecting both individual rights and public health.
Not everything that states do in the name of protecting public health is consistent with the Constitution.
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Courts so far have not been inclined to ask that question.
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For each plausible theory, there are puzzling counterexamples.
The leaked documents also expect nearly 200,000 people to be infected daily by the end of the month.
Like all of us, law enforcement will face a world of reduced public interactions, devastated economies, and changed ways of life.
Early takeaways from the country's response to a pandemic
Matt Ridley on how the coronavirus caught him by surprise, the crucial role of dissent in politics, and the importance of innovation for survival
A surgeon and policy analyst tallies up the steep costs of delaying and denying elective surgery and other care during the coronavirus pandemic.
When infection prevalence is low, a test with relatively low specificity can generate highly misleading results.
Varying state responses will provide the thing we need most right now: information.
While official death tolls clearly underestimate the epidemic's impact, total mortality numbers can be misleading.
On the same day Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews came out for a funeral, hundreds were gathering elsewhere in New York City to watch a military flyover.
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