The Best of Reason: Abolish Amtrak, the FDA, and the TSA
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else.
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else.
The agency has not made air travel safer but it has made it costlier and more time-consuming to fly.
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Customs and Border Protection insists that it can search electronics without a warrant. A federal judge just said it can't.
Schools are already bad enough for kids. Let's not make it worse by taking tips from the people who've insisted you take your shoes off at the airport for 20 years.
A reined-in TSA would be the sound of music to many Americans' ears.
Analysts and lawmakers are concerned about a new TSA program that instructs passengers to insert their IDs into a machine and takes a pictures of them.
Surveillance tech that isn't banned often becomes mandatory eventually.
Department of Homeland Security
Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.
The government is refining its ability to track your movements with little discussion.
The bill also gives TSA employees the power to collectively bargain, which means more pay raises are likely in the future.
The San Francisco Police Department assured the public it had "no plans to arm robots with guns." But assurances aren't guarantees.
The Transportation Security Administration is one of the more useless, invasive appendages of the post-9/11 security state. It’s well past time to get rid of it.
But a few remnants of post-9/11 foreign and domestic policy still need to be thrown out.
The risk of broad and overcautious policies is one we should take more seriously.
Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
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Creating a TSA-like experience for every single New York City subway rider is one of the worst ideas floated in the wake of yesterday's tragic shooting.
"I know the CDC is working to develop a scientific framework," says Ashish K. Jha
The same agency that brought us security theater continues to enforce a rule that never made sense.
The policy, which covers trains, buses, and subways as well, is now set to expire on April 18.
The unions' support for hygiene theater is of a piece with their support for security theater.
The bumbling TSA and performative mask requirements are ineffective air-travel hassles.
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The agency is far more of a threat than the dangers from which it supposedly protects us.
Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight.
No matter what the public wants, crises typically leave the state more powerful.
COVID-19 and 9/11 both created opportunities to restrict our liberties in the name of keeping us safe.
While liquid limits are common, America's shoe removal policy is nearly unique, and many countries allow small pocket knives.
Department of Homeland Security
The consolidation of numerous unrelated government agencies within a single department has led to decades of waste, mismanagement, and terrible abuses of authority.
Los Angeles County is nevertheless aping the WHO by recommending universal masking "to be extra safe."
The agency's rule, which it recently extended until mid-September, makes no sense as a safety measure.
It's unscientific, wastes precious resources, and keeps Americans unjustifiably scared of the virus.
Existing laws are more than adequate to handle the Capitol rioters.
We have to stop governing by emergency.
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Could that end up costing more lives than it saves?
But these lawmakers think they should be.
The lawsuit argues that the DEA is violating the Fourth Amendment by seizing money from travelers without evidence of criminal activity.
From relaxed TSA rules to speedy FDA approvals, the coronavirus is forcing authorities to admit many of their regulations are unnecessary.