We Should Keep Expanding Telehealth, Even After the Pandemic
Senators and state officials are proposing ways to sweep aside nonsensical regulations that place geographic limits on telehealth.
Senators and state officials are proposing ways to sweep aside nonsensical regulations that place geographic limits on telehealth.
A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent.
New bills in the legislature would make it easier for cities to allow more housing on their own, and crack down on places that try to cheat their way out of permitting development.
Neither wind power nor deregulation are responsible for the Texas power disaster.
This tech/media fight down under is not about democracy or monopolies. It’s about ad revenue.
Online companies might not be as nefarious as you think.
Hawaii's 10-cent booze tax draws ire of brewers, while Alabama moves toward legalizing alcohol delivery.
A new lawsuit from two YIMBY groups argues that the state failed to incorporate a jobs-housing balance when calculating the number of new homes the San Francisco Bay Area has to plan for.
Some trends to look for over the next four years
A Democratic White House and a Republican Senate might be the best of all worlds when it comes to federal housing policy.
The CRA may offer Democrats a quick and easy way to repeal Trump Administration regulations, if they are willing to use it.
Biden's willingness to extend a nationwide eviction moratorium, while declining to mandate masks nationwide, demonstrates a worrying inconsistency in his views on presidential powers.
Biden correctly recognizes he doesn't have the authority to impose a general national mask mandate. The same reasoning shows the nationwide eviction ban is also illegal.
Trump did more than any recent president to pare back regulatory red tape, but the incoming Biden administration is eager to add more.
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
Amazon denies any impropriety in its decision to suspend the Twitter alternative, dismissing the suit as "meritless."
Garden State lawmakers have unanimously passed two bills now allowing restaurants to keep their outdoor operations running so long as their indoor dining rooms are restricted.
An interesting illustration of the "non-trademark use" doctrine.
After a 16-month investigation into the big four tech companies, it seems the most that congressional busybodies can accuse them of is routine business practices and having popular services.
Entrepreneurs discouraged by red tape even before COVID-19 need officials to leave them alone.
The Harvard economist explains how to expand opportunity for the young by deregulating housing, labor, and education.
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.
A growing number of states are enshrining eviction moratoriums into laws that won't expire until well into next year.
Joe Biden can easily stop further work on the wall, protect property owners against further takings of private property, and save money in the process. Additional steps may be tougher, but are still worth considering.
Congress' extension of a federal ban on evictions does little to address the legal problems with the policy.
"I hope my case can start removing senseless boundaries to teletherapy," said Brokamp, who is suing in federal court on First Amendment grounds.
Plus: House OKs bloated $1.4 trillion spending package, new Amash bills aim to protect asylum seekers and immigrant detainees, and more...
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.
Plus: Google gets hit with another antitrust lawsuit, the U.S. falls in a new ranking of human freedom, and more...
If the lawsuit were to succeed, it would hurt the people it seeks to help.
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging the legality of NCAA rules restricting compensation for college athletes. Legal issues aside, the policy case for abolishing these rules is strong.
As in many previous cases, government officials promised huge economic gains from seizing property for transfer to private interests - but failed to deliver.
Plus: Sexual misconduct at the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard and Mike Lee don't understand the First Amendment, and more...
Libertarian History/Philosophy
"I just do my own thing," said the George Mason University economist and author of The State Against Blacks.
Republicans and Democrats are working together on an antitrust push against big tech. It will backfire big-time.
COVID-19 is reigniting old debates about zoning, public health, urban planning, and suburban sprawl.
Little gray men encounter reams of red tape.
It's hard to take seriously complaints that there are no alternatives to Facebook when they're made on Twitter.
You might finally be able to buy a dishwasher that gets the job done, unless Joe Biden changes the rules again.
Libertarianism is far from wildly popular, overall. But libertarian causes have done well in referenda in recent years. We can build on that.
Despite fears that a pandemic-ravaged economy would force renters from their homes in droves, evictions were down nationwide at the end of summer.
Nearly 60 percent of Californians approved a proposition to exempt Uber and Lyft from most of Assembly Bill 5.
Michael Morrison used to be a boxer. Now he brawls with zoning boards and tax collectors.
The president promised to save suburbanites' neighborhoods from a wave of new housing development. They voted against him anyway.
California Sen. Scott Wiener coasted to victory in an election that pitted his deregulatory housing agenda against his opponent's socialist vision.
Beneficial outcomes on at least three of four important California ballot measures: racial preferences, rent control, and protecting ride-share businesses and workers.