New York NIMBYs Protest the 'Manhattanization' of Manhattan
The New York Blood Center wants a larger headquarters to continue its cutting-edge medical research. Activists claim the new building will cast too much shadow.
The New York Blood Center wants a larger headquarters to continue its cutting-edge medical research. Activists claim the new building will cast too much shadow.
National surveys obscure large regional variations in public opinion about abortion limits.
Italy's desire to impose "standards of identity" threatens the food freedom of eaters.
And it's already sold out.
Regulations might reshape DIY gun products, but they can’t eliminate the demand that created the industry.
The Restoring Board Immunity Act would give states yet another reason to rein in overzealous licensing authorities.
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.
Plus: Mask burning is freedom of speech, New York reaches recreational weed deal, and more...
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.
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