What Homeschoolers Knew Before Everyone Else
Long before the pandemic, millions of students were completing their education at home. I was one of them.
Deregulation
California Distillers Get a New Year's Eve Reprieve From Ban on Shipping Booze Direct to Customers
Distillers have been granted emergency regulatory relief—for now.
The Biden Administration Crushes America's Brief Experiment in Showerhead Freedom
The Department of Energy's new energy efficiency rule drags us back to the dark days of 2013, when showers were allowed to emit no more than 2.5 gallons of water a minute.
Will Massachusetts Make Life Sweeter for Home-Cook Entrepreneurs?
It's oppressively hard, if not impossible, to sell homemade food in the Bay State. One lawmaker proposes massive regulatory reform.
Joe Biden's Proposed Ban on Fast, Effective Dishwashers Is a Gift to Big Business
Donald Trump legalized energy-hungry short-cycle dishwashers. The current administration is undoing that progress.
The Sims 4: Cottage Living
You can finally set up a farm with crops and animals such as cows, llamas, and chickens—heedless of zoning rules!
More Fans Can Easily Bet on the NFL Than Ever Before
Convenient online sports betting is legal and live in 14 states.
Wisconsin Votes To Exempt Hair Braiders From Occupational Licensing Law
A measure awaiting the governor's signature would make it easier for natural hair braiders in Wisconsin to work.
Cigars Aren't Cigarettes. A New Bill Proposes That the FDA Regulate Them Accordingly.
A bipartisan bill in Congress seeks to get the FDA out of the premium cigar industry.
What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like
Dr. Lee Gross' direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.
PRIME Cuts: Bill Would Slaughter Federal Regs on Small Meat Processors
COVID-19 has exposed the problems of a centralized food supply and built momentum for sweeping deregulation of the meat industry.
Strange Bedfellows Oppose Improving Maine's Food Sovereignty Law
Grocery stores hate expanding food freedom, but why is the head of Maine's farmers market coalition so nervous?
Biden's Green Agenda Meets Environmental Red Tape
A clean-energy future will require more than just spending money.
Sweet Victories: Three States Make It Easier for Home Cooks To Be Entrepreneurs
Oklahoma, Alabama, and Montana are the latest states to deregulate homemade food sales.
Utah Second State To Adopt Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations Law
Will home cooking become the new dining out?
How Congress Could Cement State-Level Progress on Occupational Licensing Reform
The Restoring Board Immunity Act would give states yet another reason to rein in overzealous licensing authorities.
Food Freedom Is Coming To Colorado
The state legislature and Gov. Jared Polis are unshackling local ranchers and consumers.
Will Washington State Become a Friendlier Place for Small Food Entrepreneurs?
Seattle is taking steps in the right direction, but the state legislature is dragging its feet.
Abolish the FDA
The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to prevent people from making risky choices.
Dump Pandemic-Era Authoritarianism and Let Capitalism Rebuild Prosperity
Free people and free markets reduced poverty in the past and are capable of doing so again.
Utah Eases Up on the Bureaucracy with Nation's First General Regulatory Sandbox
Helping innovative companies fast-track products to market is a great way to recover from the COVID economy
The Texas Blackout Blame Game
Neither wind power nor deregulation are responsible for the Texas power disaster.
Lawmakers in Hawaii, Texas, and Georgia Are Making Alcohol Sales More Difficult, While Pols in Alabama and Wisconsin Embrace Liberalization
Hawaii's 10-cent booze tax draws ire of brewers, while Alabama moves toward legalizing alcohol delivery.
Will Democrats Learn to Love the Congressional Review Act?
The CRA may offer Democrats a quick and easy way to repeal Trump Administration regulations, if they are willing to use it.
Will Joe Biden Destroy Trump's Legacy of Deregulation?
Trump did more than any recent president to pare back regulatory red tape, but the incoming Biden administration is eager to add more.
Pandemic-Slammed Small Businesses Require Regulatory Relief
Entrepreneurs discouraged by red tape even before COVID-19 need officials to leave them alone.
In a Last-Minute Reversal, HHS Voids FDA Fees on Distillers Who Produced Emergency Hand Sanitizer
Thanks to coverage at Reason and pushback from the industry, the federal government voided $14,000 fees on do-gooder craft distillers just in time for the new year.
What a Frozen Cherry Pie Says About FDA Regulatory Foot-Dragging
It took 15 years for the agency to decide that consumers didn’t actually need to be protected from the threat of substandard fruit desserts.
Will Cities Survive 2020?
COVID-19 is reigniting old debates about zoning, public health, urban planning, and suburban sprawl.
Giant Metal Monolith Discovered In Utah Desert Possibly Extraterrestrial, Definitely a Code Violation
Little gray men encounter reams of red tape.
Department of Energy Rolls Back Obama's Dishwasher Restrictions
You might finally be able to buy a dishwasher that gets the job done, unless Joe Biden changes the rules again.
Unions Lost a Major Battle in Their War on the Gig Economy
Nearly 60 percent of Californians approved a proposition to exempt Uber and Lyft from most of Assembly Bill 5.
The Trump Administration's Real Deregulatory Record
As is so often the case, Trump's claims are not matched by Trump's actual record.
Occupational Licensing Reform Is a Biden Policy We Can All Favor
Occupational licensing rules are more often arbitrary bureaucratic hurdles than they are protections for health or safety.
San Francisco Voters Will Have a Chance To Undo Regulations Strangling Small Businesses
Prop H will make it easier for businesses to set up shop or readapt their space, all while preventing nosey neighbors from bringing everything to a halt.
The USDA Should Let People Plant Blight-Resistant American Chestnut Trees
Anti-biotech activists cite the precautionary principle to maintain chestnut tree-free forests.
Federal Regulations Have Forced Lower-Skilled Workers Out of Banking Jobs
Regulations have hiked up the cost of doing business, causing firms to automate and hire more employees with advanced degrees.
It's Time to Permanently Suspend Regulatory Barriers to Telehealth
Patients and providers should be able to meet remotely without bureaucrats getting in the way.
The Pandemic Is a Reminder That Many Regulations Are Both Costly and Unnecessary
It took a crisis for policymakers to see that hundreds of rules were not worth the burdens they imposed.
Make 'Temporary' Regulatory Relief Permanent After the Pandemic Passes
The health crisis revealed red tape that hobbles our lives even in good times.
America Wasn't Ready for Coronavirus
Early takeaways from the country's response to a pandemic
What It's Like To Be a Rational Optimist in 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
Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley Will Do Everything Necessary To Combat Coronavirus (Unless It Involves Deregulation)
In two separate op-eds yesterday, the senators pitch central planning as the best response to the coronavirus pandemic.
FDA Will Lift Restrictions on Face Mask Imports, Toppling Another Pointless Regulation
Health care workers will now be allowed to use the Chinese-certified KN95 masks, which are equivalent to the N95 masks that are in short supply.
FDA Will Finally Let Gays Donate Blood—If They Wait 3 Months After Having Sex
Before this, the wait period was a year.
Coronavirus: 10 Public Safety Regulations Set Aside in the Name of Public Safety
Restrictions on takeout cocktails, telemedicine, hand sanitizer, and plastic bags are among the rules being chucked aside in a crisis.
