D.C. Mayor Says New Airbnb Regs Are Unconstitutional, But She Won't Veto Them
The most remarkable thing about the new rules: Hotel lobbyists managed to convince the city council to give up $100 million in tax revenue.
The most remarkable thing about the new rules: Hotel lobbyists managed to convince the city council to give up $100 million in tax revenue.
Raising the cost of employing workers is never a recipe for increasing employment.
Private citizens often step in to do what government officials say only the government can do.
Revving up pepper hotness in tomatoes using CRISPR genome-editing
The market's performance is falling far short of predictions.
Raw counts of new rules added or pages in the Federal Register are a poor measure of deregulatory efforts.
The punishment would certainly not fit the crime.
The agency admits that its new bioengineered food regs are "not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment."
The FDA' policy makes no exception for gay men who use condoms or are in monogamous relationships.
In a case SCOTUS will hear next month, victims of Tennessee's protectionism argue that it flouts the 14th Amendment as well as the Commerce Clause.
A new Medicare prescription rule will aggravate undertreatment of pain.
Sometimes business owners are the worst enemies of the free market.
The California-based retailer could have been hit with a fine of $575,000.
Ordinary people aren't willing to pay higher costs just to fulfill the grand visions of environmentalists.
A lawsuit argues that the state's elaborate restrictions, ostensibly aimed at preventing underage vaping, violate the right to freedom of speech.
When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.
What happens when prices are increased by fiat? They go up, usually, and in this case they may increase traffic congestion, too.
Plus: RIP The Weekly Standard?, America loves exercise science, and court says no to ban on speech promoting illegal immigration.
As the prison-industrial complex starts to crumble, get ready for the social-media-surveillance complex to replace it.
South Carolina used to mandate tiny bottles for the same reason.
Businesses owners, not politicians, should have the final say over how their customers pay.
A brief look at 50-year cost and quality trends in cars, houses, college and health care.
New York City's new zoning ordinance would give the city an effective veto over proposed hotel projects in much of the city.
As Facebook's supposed ideological allies unfriend the social media giant, the tech industry is learning that there are no permanent allegiances in politics.
Portland and D.C.'s treatment of electric scooters undermines the cities' own goals.
If the FDA does not try to reduce underage vaping, Gottlieb says in a Reason interview, congressional intervention could wreck the industry.
The new rules arguably violate the law that gave the agency authority to regulate tobacco products.
What happens when social justice and city bureaucracy meet? Everyone loses a little more privacy, and workers and business-owners alike suffer.
The health burden on adults who continue smoking far outweighs the risks for teenagers who vape.
Trump has slowed new regulations to a trickle, but has largely failed to cut back the regulatory state.
Activist group finally recognizes that it can't achieve its energy and climate goals without nuclear power.
Striking down exclusive representation would allow labor organizers to give the boot to free-riding employees.
Minimum wage ballot initiatives are often good politics, never good policy.
Our northern neighbors are handling the transition from prohibition to regulation better than the U.S. in several ways.
If we want fresh oysters, good cheeses, and clean water, we should rethink how we regulate all three.
On the upside, agency promises to review over-the-counter drug rules, approve more new drugs, and liberate French dressing.
It's just the latest development in the FDA's war on vaping.
Police initially said the arrests were part of "a long-term investigation into...human trafficking" and prostitution.
It's time to find out how deep in the red our country is.