Is National Shelter-In-Place Coming Soon?
And what would that look like?
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
FDA is reportedly cutting red tape to give expanded access to COVID-19 patients.
How broken bureaucracy and poor political leadership combined to botch the rollout of COVID-19 testing
The NYU Law professor thinks we're in for a mess of bad epidemiology, ineffective stimulus, and misguided quarantines.
The worst-case scenarios projecting millions of deaths don't take into account adaptive behaviors.
The package seeks to curb the economic chaos caused by COVID-19.
While the rest of the country was hunkering down against coronavirus, Democrats have very nearly chosen their presidential nominee.
In the past, the federal government has sent everyone checks to stimulate the economy. But paying for all the losses that come with a coronavirus-induced shutdown would require more novel policies.
In the pandemic's wake, we'll learn, work, and live more online than ever.
Some of Trump's tariffs hit medical equipment and supplies from China. We need more trade, not less, to be prepared for pandemics.
The White House has issued new 15-day guidelines for slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The president implied at a press conference that crisis measures could be needed for much longer.
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.
Plus: A second person appears to be cured of HIV, cops can destroy your home for no reason and refuse to pay, and more...
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.
Plus: Yang endorses Biden, Klobuchar's antitrust bill, and more...
American whisky and wine drinkers are being punished for trying to amicably trade what they have for what they want.
Plus: How Trump's payroll tax would work, Daily Show accuses Kamala Harris of "gaslighting," and more..
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.
Plus: Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden, when a pandemic hits the prisons, and more...
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.
Plus: Judge rejects Gabbard's Google lawsuit, Bloomberg drops out, and more...
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?”
Plus: Who's using Clearview AI?, court rules against Joe Arpaio, and more...
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.
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