Coronavirus Is Going To Be Expensive. Too Bad the Government Is Already in Massive Debt.
Having failed to be fiscally responsible when it would have been relatively easier, our elected officials will now likely hike spending even further.
Having failed to be fiscally responsible when it would have been relatively easier, our elected officials will now likely hike spending even further.
But what he will do with that power remains uncertain.
Despite the slow-growing anxieties and government incompetence, expect Americans to be resilient in fighting the pandemic.
Here's what public health experts are saying.
Trump wants a poorly targeted, budget-busting payroll tax that might encourage sick people to work.
The House bill seems to be more focused on leveraging political points than fighting coronavirus. Republicans can relate.
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary wants mandatory quarantines and a "digital Dunkirk" rescue operation.
Some Republican senators are working hard to get Trump behind stronger fixes.
In two weeks we will know if his public health measures are too little, too late.
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The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary calls for a "digital Dunkirk" to fix government failure and preserve future freedoms.
Americans and those traveling from the U.K. will be exempted.
Initial hopes that the public health consequences of the new coronavirus would be mild are fading.
Privacy activists on the left and the right decry a limp set of proposed changes to the USA Freedom Act.
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American whisky and wine drinkers are being punished for trying to amicably trade what they have for what they want.
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The Reason Roundtable podcast debates the severity of the both the outbreak and the potential governmental responses.
The USA Freedom Act is about to sunset. Who will decide how and if it will be changed?
It's an interesting strategy for a president who ran in 2016 on a Nixonian "law and order" platform.
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Were the Justice Department's redactions influenced by Barr's desire to exonerate the president?
The Senate minority leader threatened two justices by name, and then he lied about it.
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Reason's science correspondent explains who is getting infected, how to protect yourself, and why nobody should be freaking out. Yet.
Unraveling panic, policy, and bad metaphors on the Reason Roundtable podcast
“Why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) claims political motivations are delaying federal approval of a plan to charge drivers entering Manhattan a congestion fee.
The argument requires several controversial assumptions and leaps of logic.
No matter how bad the outbreak might turn out to be, politicians will find a way to make it worse.
A congressional battle erupts over how much to reform the soon-to-expire USA Freedom Act—if they reform it at all.
The decision allows the Justice Department to impose immigration enforcement conditions on federal grants to state governments, and goes against numerous other court decisions striking down the exact same policy.
Trump has long complained that libel laws need to be loosened to allow more lawsuits against media outlets.
The New York Times technology reporter is revealing how social media is encouraging individual expression.
Trump's failure to speak out against Modi's reign of lawlessness and terror is an epic abdication of responsibility.
The problems with federal sentencing guidelines are real and troubling, even in cases that do not involve the president’s pals.
But Sanders is also right that America has made some terrible foreign policy mistakes in the past.
Criminal justice reformers say federal prosecutors torpedoed clemency petitions in worthy cases.
The Midwestern moderate isn't alone is fretting about the radicalism of the current Democratic front-runner.
As Sanders steamrolls toward the Democratic nomination, the Reason Roundtable podcast dissects the panic attacks among MSNBC anchors, conservative commie-haters, and the bipartisan establishment elite.
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution
Instead of $12.5 billion in new agriculture purchases exports to China this year, the USDA expects less than $4 billion.
When it comes to the trade deficit, policy wonks were right and the president was wrong.
Sinking in the Swamp authors Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng are documenting all the president's grifters for The Daily Beast.
The president remains frankly puzzled by the distinction between can and should.
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