When Should Force Be Used To Protect Public Health?
Since meager testing resources left officials ignorant of crucial facts about the epidemic, they made policy decisions without the evidence necessary to assess their proportionality.
Paternalism
The CDC's Shift From Vaping to COVID-19 Highlights the Crucial Differences Between Real and Metaphorical Epidemics
The agency's scaremongering about e-cigarettes undermined its credibility on the eve of a true public health crisis.
Alabama Bans Margarita Pitchers, Declaring Them Adulterated
Regulators say six separate drinks are fine, but combining them in one vessel is a crime.
Chuck Schumer Is Protecting the Nation From Snortable Chocolate [Reason Podcast]
Reason editors discuss Trump's Warsaw speech, the Putin meeting, Mike Pence's Mars shot, and more.
Another Blow Against the Petty Tyranny of Blue Laws
Minnesota becomes the 39th state to allow Sunday liquor sales.
UFC: One Man's Brutal Spectacle Is Another's Eden
People have a right to do what they want with their own bodies.
Philadelphia's New Soda Tax Has Nothing to Do With Obesity
The city council rejected regressive paternalism in favor of a simple money grab.
"Don't Ban Smoking in Public Housing"
Proposed rule treats poor people like children and exposes government paternalism at its most naked.
Bailey Lecturing in Russia and Ukraine on the Liberation of Medicine
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
Ebola and the CDC's Dangerous Mission Drift
Controlling contagious diseases is just one of many items on the agency's to-do list.
Kennedy's Big Government Paternalism
Remembering the darker side of the liberal senator's legacy