Season 2, Episode 2 Health Care
Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration declares a crisis and issues new regulations.
The Court this year reversed Chevron, a decades-old precedent giving bureaucrats deference over judges when the law is ambiguous.
Drivers in the state narrowly avoided an even harsher restriction on their automotive freedom.
Housing costs, job availability, energy prices, and technological advancement all hinge on a web of red tape that is leaving Americans poorer and less free.
Officials pursue an anti-liberty agenda through unofficial pressure and foreign regulators.
The Federal Aviation Administration has called an unnecessary halt on launches following the Falcon 9 mishap on August 28.
Gas prices in California are exceptionally high because of the state's high taxes and anti-oil regulations, not because gas station owners there are greedier.
Seven congressional Democrats called on the FEC to stop deepfakes. But is there really much to worry about?
Government pre-approval for every label could crush craft breweries. And do you really want to force the Carthusian monks who make Green Chartreuse to reveal their ingredients?
Plus: An appeals court sides with property owners seeking compensation for the CDC's eviction ban, a Michigan court backs the would-be builders of a "green cemetery," and Kamala Harris' spotty supply-side credentials.
"We'd have a national ban on pornography if we could, right?"
Amid rising grocery costs, the FTC's fight against the merger may end up hurting the very consumers it's supposed to protect.
The bill could have unintended consequences that reach far beyond California, affecting the entire nation.
A new report ranks the states on their occupational licensing requirements.
The ban was "enacted with the express purpose of insulating Florida agricultural businesses from innovative, out-of-state competition," according to the suit.
The bill’s sweeping regulations could leave developers navigating a legal minefield and potentially halt progress in its tracks.
The FDA, which approved the protocols for the studies it now questions, is asking for an additional Phase 3 clinical trial, which would take years and millions of dollars.
The Brussels Effect makes meddlesome European regulations a global problem.
In a new book, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch describes the "human toll" of proliferating criminal penalties.
But 11 states still forbid wine from being sold in grocery stores anyway.
The company needs a lot of government permission slips to build its planned new city in the Bay Area. It's now changing the order in which it asks for them.
With prices skyrocketing, the city is weighing whether to regulate hotels further by barring them from hiring contracted workers.
Only Sens. Paul and Wyden are expected to vote "no" on Tuesday. Power to stop KOSA now resides with the House.
It seems anything the government touches dies—today, it’s thousands of acres of once-productive vineyards.
A recent boom in entrepreneurship challenges red-tape hurdles.
The presumptive Democratic nominee has a more liberal drug policy record than both the president and the Republican presidential nominee.
Recent actions by the FTC show that its officers should review the Constitution.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause.
The agency claims DOI and DOC have "a high potential for abuse" because they resemble other drugs it has placed in Schedule I.
Voters should not dismiss the former president's utter disregard for the truth as a personal quirk or standard political practice.
Bureaucratic overreach is stirring up unnecessary trouble for Utah bartenders.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
A federal judge rejected the government’s excuses for banning home production of liquor.
How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause
"I don’t care to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state," the onetime presidential hopeful said this week.
Proposed bills reveal the extreme measures E.A.’s AI doomsayers support.
A modern legal battle challenges the federal ban on distilling alcohol at home—a favorite hobby of the Founding Fathers.
The 5th Circuit ruled that the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it rejected applications from manufacturers of flavored nicotine e-liquids.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says these cases will "devastate" the regulatory state. Good.
“Immigration is an area of the law where the partisan alignments break down over Chevron.”
The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.
China's free speech record is bad, but the federal government's isn't so great either.
It won't end the administrative state or even significantly reduce the amount of federal regulation. But it's still a valuable step towards protecting the rule of law and curbing executive power.
The Court says Chevron deference allows bureaucrats to usurp a judicial function, creating "an eternal fog of uncertainty" about what the law allows or requires.
