What Fear Does to Our Freedom
COVID-19 and 9/11 both created opportunities to restrict our liberties in the name of keeping us safe.
Biden Administration
Until Today, Joe Biden, Jen Psaki, and Rochelle Walensky Were All Publicly Opposed to Federal COVID Vaccine Mandates
"That's not the role of the federal government." What happened?
Biden Rolls Out Industrial Policy Plan To Overcome Government-Created COVID-19 Testing Shortages
One government failure cascades into another.
Biden Will Announce Vaccine Mandate for Companies With 100+ Employees
The president will direct OSHA to require either vaccination or frequent testing
Biden's Total Financial Surveillance
What if every one of your noncash financial transactions was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS?
Everything Is Infrastructure Now
How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning.
Americans Cheer Afghan Departure, But Criticize Chaotic Management
Shameful scenes like those in Kabul don’t have to happen if we avoid military interventions.
Did the Supreme Court's DACA Decision Lead to the Biden Administration's "Remain in Mexico" Defeat?
Professors Zachary Price and Benjamin Eidelson offer competing takes.
20 States Sue Over Title IX Guidance on Gender Identity
Plus: Biden's Afghanistan speech, Texas abortion ban takes effect, Instagram's creepy new plan, and more...
Afghanistan Withdrawal Is 'Ending an Era' of Failed Nation-Building, Says Biden
In a speech aimed at proponents of perpetual war, the president refused to apologize for exiting Afghanistan.
Viral Video of Man Hanging From Taliban Helicopter Wasn't What It Appeared To Be
But numerous politicians and war hawks were duped by seeing what they wanted to see.
America's Longest War Is Over
Plus: Backpage on trial, Texas abortion providers ask SCOTUS to stop ban, vegan "butter" and "cheese" are safe, and more…
Department of Education Will Launch Investigations Targeting States That Banned Schools From Mandating Masks
Not everything potentially beneficial should be mandatory and not everything potentially harmful should be banned. And not every dispute about costs and benefits should be decided by the federal government.
Biden's Justice Department Goes After Police Misconduct
A sharp departure from the Trump administration's approach
Supreme Court Says Private Property Rights and Separation of Powers Do Still Exist in U.S.
Plus: Biden won't budge on Afghanistan, bad news for psychedelics measure in California, and more...
Biden Lectures Businesses About Vaccines While Fully Vaccinated Feds Stay Home From Work
The entire federal workforce is required to be vaccinated. So why is the federal bureaucracy still operating as if routine public interactions are a public health threat?
Supreme Court Concludes Trump "Remain in Mexico" Policy Must Remain in Place
The Biden Administration suffers a significant loss on the Supreme Court's "shadow docket."
Nothing Was Gained From 20 Years in Afghanistan
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?
Don't Excuse Biden for His Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
You can both support withdrawal and recognize its failed execution.
Facebook's Taliban Policy Could Delete a Lot More Than Just Pro-Taliban Content
Plus: Biden won't budge on Afghanistan, the link between cruise ship vaccine passports and free speech, and more...
We Need To Get Afghans Out of Afghanistan Too
What Afghan civilians need now is resettlement, not remilitarization.
Biden's Determined Humility Regarding Afghanistan Is What America Needs Right Now
"I will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past," Biden said Monday.
Infrastructure Bill Tries To Boost Number of Toll Roads While Exempting Almost All Drivers From Tolls
A new grant program that would help states set up privately operated toll roads would also forbid charging tolls to anyone making under $400,000 a year.
Afghanistan: A 'Sudden Fall' Two Decades in the Making
Plus: A history of U.S. sex work prohibition and its harms, against the Open App Markets Act, and more...
After 18 Disastrous Years, the U.S. Should Withdraw All Troops From Iraq
I witnessed firsthand how U.S. actions that favored one group inevitably angered another, which is why the war is an endless game of whack-a-mole.
State Governments Didn't Need Coronavirus Bailouts. They Got Billions of Dollars Anyway.
As it turns out, state and local tax revenues hardly collapsed.
COVID Travel Bans Are a Death Sentence for This Remote Border Town
One of America's most isolated communities has struggled to weather the pandemic.
A Jobs-Killing Civilian Climate Corps Is Not the Way To Fix Climate Change
Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed the creation of a counterproductive $130 billion federal behemoth.
Biden: It's Time for Afghanistan Forces 'To Fight for Themselves'
Plus: YouTube and radicalization, the infrastructure sham, and more...
The Senate's Infrastructure Bill Redefines 'Broadband' To Manufacture a Connectivity Crisis
It is the equivalent of mandating that all new homes come with at least five bathrooms.
Lawsuit Says Conditions Inside Biden Administration's Shelters for Migrant Teens Are 'Inherently Unsafe'
Reason reported in May on persistent underwear shortages, filthy living conditions, and medical neglect at the largest of the shelters.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Will Add More Than $250 Billion to the Deficit. Does Anyone Care?
A CBO report that might have sunk legislation in an earlier era was greeted with a bipartisan shrug.
Resolution To Repeal 1991 and 2002 Military Force Authorizations Advances to Senate Floor
It may look like Congress is reclaiming its constitutional war powers, but the president still has plenty of ways to justify his military actions.
Should Trans Women Compete Against Biological Women in Sports?
On Monday, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics.
CDC Extends Trump-Era Migrant Expulsion Policy, Citing Delta Variant
Plus: Enough about FOSTA's "unintended" consequences, another blow to the FTC's Facebook case, and more...
I Got a Breakthrough COVID-19 Case. We Don't Need To Panic About It.
In Virginia, the breakthrough hospitalization rate is 0.0032 percent and the breakthrough death rate is 0.0009 percent.
Sexism in Politics Is Real. It's Not Kamala Harris' Main Problem.
Plus: Behind the CDC mask guidance, where new mask mandates are cropping up, and more...
Two More Whistleblowers Come Forward Alleging Neglect and Mismanagement at Migrant Youth Shelter
The whistleblower complaints substantiate reporting from Reason in May describing filthy conditions, untrained staff, and neglect.
On Paper, Biden Is Ending the U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq. He's Actually Leaving American Troops in Danger.
Saying that American troops are in Iraq for "training and advising" and not "combat" might sound nice, but it doesn’t get them out of harm’s way.
The U.S. Is Trying To Keep Out Mexicans Who Want To Sell Their Blood Plasma
Paid plasma donation is a financial lifeline for Mexican donors and a medical lifeline for plasma-dependent patients.
The Case for Beaming Internet Into Cuba
The technological hurdles might be too difficult to overcome, but it's worth trying.
Bringing Back Mask Mandates Is Pointless Signaling
The vaccines are available. The masks are beside the point.
Biden Says CDC 'Probably' Will Recommend Kids Under 12 Wear Masks to School
Plus: Biden says killing the filibuster would throw Congress into chaos, AOC is wrong about Bezos in space, and more....
Trump Slashed Regulations That Stopped Americans From Having a Good Shower. Biden Is Bringing Them Back.
Environmentalists criticized Trump's reforms for wasting water, while showerhead manufacturers worried the deregulation would subject them to more foreign competition.
Biden Wants To Punish Facebook for the Government's Own Vaccine Failures
Federal health bureaucrats should stop scapegoating social media.
Only Biden or Congress Can Prevent 4,000 Inmates From Being Forced Back Into Federal Prison Post-COVID
The CARES Act allowed home release of nonviolent inmates during the pandemic. But after it's over, many will have to go back unless their sentences are commuted.
