New York's unemployment rate is nearly 10 percent and roughly one-third of small businesses in New York City may have closed forever. Seems like a great time to make it more expensive to employ people, right?
Individually and in organized groups, people are pushing back against lockdown orders.
"While I fully support the spirit of this legislation, certain technical changes are necessary."
The order is killing businesses and isn't rooted in science.
The New York governor should be disqualified from the U.S. attorney general job, even without a #MeToo-ing.
A NYC quarantine fitness entrepreneur stirs up controversy on Nextdoor
The New York Times columnist misconstrues the issues at stake in the challenge to New York's restrictions on houses of worship.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo described his policy as a "fear-driven response," cut by a "hatchet" rather than a "scalpel."
The New York governor is getting a shiny award for playing a good governor on TV.
The case gives SCOTUS another chance to enforce constitutional limits on disease control measures.
This is not your older brother's "Libertarian Moment," caution Reason Roundtable podcasters.
New York will limit private, in-home gatherings to just 10 people.
The newest lockdown, which explicitly targets religious gatherings, seems likely to further skepticism of public health directives.
Students and congregants may be collateral damage in a turf war between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Limiting the hours during which food can be served is arbitrary, unscientific, and could cause overcrowding, the plaintiffs argue.
Cuomo's tortured analogy obscures his own failed leadership as the coronavirus claimed the lives of 30,000 New Yorkers.
The city’s contact-tracing efforts don’t appear to be going well, so prepare for more top-down mandates with confusing justifications.
The New York governor requires bars to sell "substantive" offerings if they'd like to stay open.
The media's fawning interviews obscure the New York governor's record.
COVID-19 control measures violate the First Amendment when they arbitrarily favor secular conduct.
U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe finds that the state's COVID-19 control measures arbitrarily discriminate against religious conduct.
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
Competent responses to the crisis have come from people and organizations voluntarily helping each other and themselves.
CNN should put an end to this bad family comedy routine—and start asking the governor real questions.
His proposed law would require that corporations return bailout funds if they don't rehire the same number of employees.
Even the president is a better moral philosopher than New York's governor.
They ignored early warning signs and pretended that everything would be OK.
Students who would have graduated this spring can start practicing medicine immediately.
Judges would be given additional leeway to order pretrial detentions.
A uniform national response risks doing more harm than good in a nation that’s not uniform.
The point of shutting down the "nonessential" economy, New York's governor explains, is to "save lives, period, whatever it costs."
New York's governor insists his edict "mandating that 100% of the workforce must stay home" is "not a shelter-in-place order."
The "panic" Andrew Cuomo has in mind is a rational response to the threat of an economically ruinous government overreaction.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) claims political motivations are delaying federal approval of a plan to charge drivers entering Manhattan a congestion fee.
Jewish criminal justice groups are not having it.
We've got a lot of problems with you people.
More than half of cigarettes consumed in the state are smuggled from elsewhere, thanks to high taxes.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other prohibitionists continue to conflate the two issues.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.
Better evidence sharing and a dramatic drop in cash bail demands will help defendants challenge charges.
Watch Nick Gillespie discuss this on Fox Business's Kennedy show tonight at 9.30 P.M. E.T.
Plus: Rand Paul has "never been prouder" of Trump, the Women's March clashes with the Park Service, and Vegas' first Stripper Parade & Expo is coming soon.
Once again, politicians in the Empire State want to leave nowhere to hide from their control.
On marijuana, New York's governor has lagged far behind his party's rank-and-file and the general public.
The organization's lawsuit against New York's governor survives a motion to dismiss.
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