Officials in Gallatin County, Montana, say a state law that prohibits local governments from forcing businesses to turn customers away is preventing it from cracking down on zoning code violators.
In a move that is likely to undermine public health, the agency warns that products containing synthetic nicotine "will be subject to FDA enforcement."
In an important new article, political philosophers Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman explain why standard justifications for paternalistic restrictions on consumers also apply to voters.
While Americans debate what should be allowed on social media, the EU wants government to decide.
The proposed rule, which targets the cigarettes that black smokers overwhelmingly prefer, will harm the community it is supposed to help.
The Pharmacy Access Act is good policy stuck in legislative limbo.
The state has 1,288 independent special districts. But we aren't hearing significant GOP complaints about anyone's but Disney's.
Menthols aren’t harder to quit than other cigarettes.
"It's a lot to try and put this stuff all together all on my own, using my own savings, and then having to start all over," says Venus Vegan Tattoo owner Selena Carrion.
Forcing private companies to host speech violates the First Amendment.
The Biden administration's main priority seems to be leaving the agency's authority vague enough to allow future interventions.
Compliance is proving to be expensive and confusing.
Plus: The roots of the housing crisis, the U.S. Supreme Court reconsiders Miranda warnings, a judge halts Kentucky's abortion law, and more...
The history of wine delivery is pretty clear.
The decision against the rule hinged on whether the agency had the power it asserted.
Plus: The end of travel mask mandates, pundits out of touch with how normies use social media, and more...
The Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act would give restaurants another $42 billion in grants to cover the lingering costs of the pandemic.
The agency's obsession with adolescent vaping is driving decisions that undermine public health.
An emergency measure proposed by Council Chairman Phil Mendelson would have given city officials the power to fine and close the city's unregulated cannabis "gifting shops."
Instead of building on Republican support for federalism, they seem determined to alienate potential allies.
The state's regulators plan to start accepting applications from manufacturers and "service centers" on January 2.
Plus: Prayer on football field faces SCOTUS, Mike Tyson's ear-shaped edibles banned in Colorado, and more...
The Massachusetts senator also came out in favor of creating a central bank digital currency
Just three Republicans voted for the MORE Act, two fewer than in 2020.
Sohn, whose nomination could go before the Senate for a final vote within the coming weeks, is stuck in the past.
Plus: Meta's campaign to smear TikTok, new research on immigrants and welfare, and more...
Once again, Washington is giving us every reason to believe it's selling favors to cronies even if it means everyone else loses.
City politicians and union activists have said the temporary ban on new delivery warehouses is meant to send a message that the company can't just open a new facility without first providing generous "community benefits."
Hispanics get slammed the hardest by licensing requirements that regulators can’t justify.
Since the 1960s, planners have convinced many state and regional governments to limit the physical spread of urban areas.
Black markets thrive under mismanaged legalization.
Legislators in New Jersey and Oregon keep failing to repeal their states' bans on self-service gas stations. Is Massachusetts' small town direct democracy the solution?
Liberal Berkeley officials might be coming around to the view held by conservative business leaders, who have long argued that California's Environmental Quality Act needs an overhaul.
Azael Sepulveda is suing the city of Pasadena, Texas over its requirement that his autobody shop add 23 parking spaces he insists he doesn't need and can't afford.
Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU and Reason's Robby Soave debate the harms of social media and what the government should do about it.
Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU debates Reason's Robby Soave.
The alcohol sector has seen more than 6,000 new entrants, but the Treasury still thinks it has an antitrust problem.
Regulatory agencies were never designed to be political, but the tables have turned.
Brandon Krause has spent $30,000 trying to legalize a business that the city said for years was all up to code.
Expect anti-biotech activists to oppose this important development.
Both Republicans and Democrats want to address poverty with big government.
Are TikTok security risks real or imagined? And will users be served by greater federal government intervention?
Michael and Chantell Sackett say they shouldn't have to spend years—and hundreds of thousands of dollars—just getting permission to build on their suburban lot.
According to a recent report published by the Reason Foundation, the Pioneer Insitute, and the Cicero Institute, Florida offers telehealth options that far exceed other states.
Despite shifting enforcement away from cops, NYC is still ticketing the dickens out of New York's street-food sellers.
A bill would let Oregon gas stations turn their customers loose on a limited number of self-service pumps. Some drivers fear the freedom.
Those who demand a revival of antitrust regulation to "promote competition" may not realize that they're inciting a revival of cronyism to suppress competition.
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