Are Paper Bags Really Better for the Environment Than Plastic Bags?
New Jersey is the first state to ban single-use bags made from both plastic and paper, but one is actually worse for the environment than the other.
New Jersey is the first state to ban single-use bags made from both plastic and paper, but one is actually worse for the environment than the other.
Who does he think ultimately pays those taxes?
We already know what happens when governments try to impose prohibitions: messy, deadly black markets.
Nikki Fried hopes to challenge Gov. Ron DeSantis, who agrees with her on guns and weed.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the makeup of the Democratic Party has recently been trending toward high-earning professionals.
The metaverse platform Somnium Space plans to let its users' personas live on.
The pediatric neurosurgeon who first popularized shaken-baby syndrome has doubts about how it is used in courtrooms today.
The Export-Import Bank enjoys bipartisan support, even though there is little evidence that it's effective.
The last thing the U.S. should be doing is poking a nuclear bear.
Florida's governor has declared a regulatory war on one of the state's biggest employers. But it's the taxpayers who may ultimately pay the price.
The Trump administration invoked Title 42 in late March 2020. Biden repeatedly extended it. Now, a federal judge has blocked the administration from lifting the order.
The gun control policies under discussion are fundamentally ill-suited to prevent mass shootings.
There is telling people how to live, and there is maximizing people's ability to live the lives they want.
Even Obamacare's fiercest advocates say it has not lived up to its goals.
Stimulus checks, government spending, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are only part of the problem.
"It may be the case that [some American] children give up control of their attention when it's always managed by an adult," say some experts.
The Supreme Court justice is wrong when he says abortion rights aren't deeply rooted in American history.
Government officials have declared an Oxford home's shark roof sculpture a protected landmark, against the wishes of the current owner of the house.
In America, social change often comes after a politician or government goes too heavily on offense against individuals wishing merely to stand their ground and assert their rights.
With its unnecessarily complicated and contentious provisions, the MORE Act received only three Republican votes in April.
The events of 2022 can be seen as another chapter in a very long story: Ukraine looking westward and seeking freedom while Russia slides deeper into autocracy.
South Carolina's NAACP and ACLU are challenging the state's ban on automated data collection.
Now that the pandemic is fading and much of the available rent relief has been spent, L.A.'s eviction moratorium seems like pure regulatory inertia.
Can a web designer be compelled under the First Amendment to host wedding pictures?
People believe and say things that aren't true all of the time, of course. But efforts by public officials to combat them may well make things worse, not better.
Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has a good track record on cases involving qualified immunity.
Lawmakers stuffed more than $8 billion in pet projects into an omnibus federal spending bill passed in March. But wait, didn't Congress ban earmarks back in 2011?
Civil liberties groups argue that debt-based license suspensions are unfair and illogical since they deprive people of transportation, preventing them from earning money to pay off debts.
The first innovative nuclear reactors designed by American companies may well begin operation in Eastern Europe before they get built in Idaho.
Though the United Nations has yet to recognize the Free Republic of Liberland, its metaverse equivalent will exist in the cloud.
Unfortunately, an automatic crypto purchase made with after-tax earnings won't lower your taxable income.
Xiulu Ruan, a pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for prescribing opioid analgesics "outside the usual course of professional medical practice."
How Stewart Rhodes went from denouncing authoritarianism to urging an authoritarian crackdown
Every June since 1990, residents had held a vigil for the Tiananmen Square dead. But in 2020, Hong Kong announced an extension of social distancing restrictions until June 5, the day after the anniversary.
Nearly 4 million people fled Ukraine in the first month after the February 24 invasion, and thousands have left each day since.
Billionaires are better at figuring out what to do with their money than the government will ever be.
The answer for students who feel unwelcome or underserved where they are is to expand the schooling market.
"It's abundantly clear [Trump] has no regard for the suffering of the Venezuelan people," Biden said in October 2020 before engaging in many of the same practices toward asylum seekers.
Trying to sue or zone bitcoin mines out of town is the wrong response to the tradeoffs the industry presents.
The damage caused by election lies is not worth abandoning free speech traditions.
There's a lesson here for the federal government the next time a national economic crisis strikes: The states don't need bailouts.
Chuck Schumer claims to favor repealing the federal ban on marijuana. So why did he sink legislation that would have removed federal obstacles to banking services for pot businesses?
After promising to be "the most pro-union president you've ever seen," Biden has broken with all recent Democratic predecessors by actually governing like he means it.
Which boycotts, cancellations, and sanctions are defensible and well-targeted against the state actors who are responsible for the attack on Ukraine?
By going from purging anyone who does not pledge allegiance to the nationalist agenda to welcoming all comers, natcons have abandoned the original defining characteristic of their movement.
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