America's Shipping Laws Made the Gas Crisis Worse
The protectionist Jones Act makes it harder to move fuel around the country.
The protectionist Jones Act makes it harder to move fuel around the country.
Making it easier to add energy capacity won’t prevent hacking hiccups, but it would help keep energy flowing.
A member of the board (and a Cato Institute vice president) defends the controversial decision to kick the former president off the social media platform.
Washington, D.C., policy makers are pairing their very gradual reopening with a series of complicated, confusing, and unworkable regulations.
The goal is to drastically reduce the population of disease-carrying bloodsuckers.
This is the same agency that cost thousands of lives with its botched vaccine rollout.
Who could possibly have known that that would happen?
The researchers highlight the danger posed by tiny, well-circulated respiratory droplets.
Politicians and bureaucrats in legal states still struggle with the temptation to over-tax and over-regulate their legal marijuana markets.
Madam's Organ owner Bill Duggan says opening venues for the vaccinated would be a "win-win-win." Artists could perform, businesses could make money, and people would have one more reason to get their shot.
Social distancing made the production, distribution, and sale of cannabis more challenging. People stuck home alone also boosted demand for an industry dedicated to getting you high.
It would significantly reduce carbon emissions, but onerous regulation stands in the way.
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
Executive order leaves it to individual businesses, not the government.
If states generally don't limit the potency of distilled spirits, why is such a safeguard necessary for a much less hazardous product?
From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
Defying authoritarian laws helps to preserve freedom and to undermine prohibitions.
The Jones Act shields the American shipping industry from foreign competition and harms both the environment and disadvantaged communities.
Nothing is more permanent than an “emergency” mandate.
In 1960, Congress forbid service plazas on the new Interstate highways. It’s time for that to change.
The founder of the Slapfish seafood chain battles arbitrary, non-scientific regulations and a punishing economy while reinventing the lobster roll.
The culinary innovator behind Slapfish on what it's been like to run a business with government at all levels arbitrarily flipping the on-off switch.
So many people are leaving the state that it will soon lose a congressional seat.
Three recently approved plans show what politicians have learned (or failed to learn) since Colorado became the first state to allow recreational use.
An environmental law keeps public agencies from reducing wildfire fuel.
SPACs give ordinary investors a chance for big returns, but the SEC approval process is fraught with delays.
The role of the state is to protect rights and guard against fraud, not to prevent people from making risky choices.
Technological innovation makes gathering visual land data easier and cheaper—and threatens an industry’s status quo.
The law is surprisingly permissive in some ways, but it includes high taxes and other provisions that hurt consumers.
The Harmonious Living Amendment Act improves on past proposals to fine street musicians. It still suffers from all the typical problems that come with top-down regulation.
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A series of laws passed in the 1970s may have permanently hamstrung American infrastructure development.
Free people and free markets reduced poverty in the past and are capable of doing so again.
Rioters who ransacked a Senate office may have prevented a few Trump policies from taking effect.
Iowa smoke shop owners say the tax would be "a ban without being an outright ban."
Mississippi's CON law means that physical therapist Charles "Butch" Slaughter (and others like him) can't adapt to the changing circumstances created by the pandemic.
Legalizing interstate sales and allowing outdoor growing would reduce the cannabis industry's energy consumption.
A Reason reporter went to Paso Robles, California, where many businesses defied state orders to close. He enjoyed it. He also got COVID.
Burdensome regulations have likely cost lives.
A California rule and a bill approved by the House seem designed to chill freedom of speech and freedom of association.
A new paper finds that the shortages produced by emergency price controls led to more social interactions as people searched for scarce goods. Additional COVID-19 deaths weren't far behind.
A broad coalition of groups is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the state's policy.
The STURDY Act would mandate new testing standards to prevent dressers from killing people.
A promising new law will give agricultural communities in Massachusetts more say in local public-health rules that apply to them and impact their property and livelihoods.
The DIY firearms movement specifically evolved to put personal armaments beyond the reach of the government.
Environmental activists should use the market to their advantage.
The proposed bill from Assembly Members Evan Low and Cristina Garcia would require stores to have one unisex section for children's products and apparel.