The FDA Has Been Way Too Slow on At-Home COVID-19 Testing
COVID-19 diagnostic testing has been greatly scaled up from a few thousand tests per week back in early March to 2 million tests per week in late July. But the …
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Trump’s Warnings About Voting by Mail Mix Reasonable Concerns With Fanciful Conspiracy Theories
Donald Trump’s main beef against wide use of mail-in ballots is that it creates “a great Voter Fraud scenario,” allowing Democrats to “cheat in elections” and deprive Republicans such as …
The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Crushing State Budgets. A Federal Bailout Is Still a Bad Idea.
When it became clear that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to wreck the state’s tax revenue, lawmakers in Utah got out their scissors. In June, the state legislature made more …
Why Americans Fear the COVID-19 Vaccine
Six months into America’s COVID-19 pandemic, cases are surging, small businesses are faltering, playgrounds are empty, and unemployment is at 11 percent. Our best hope for ending this nightmare is …
Auburn University Is Considering Unhiring a Professor for Tweeting a Swear Word
Jesse Goldberg, an incoming professor at Auburn University, recently took to Twitter to criticize the police: “Fuck cops. Fuck every single one,” he said. Now there’s a good chance Goldberg …
‘Literally Hitler’ Election Mailer Is Protected by the First Amendment
Group wins challenge to Tennessee law against “false” speech in campaign literature. Is calling a political candidate “literally Hitler” illegal? Not in Tennessee, according to a new court ruling. The …
What’s the Best Way To Protect Free Speech? Ken White and Greg Lukianoff Debate Cancel Culture
Even as debates over cancel culture have swept the nation, free speech defenders have disagreed about what, exactly, cancel culture is, and what it means for freedom of speech. In …
Today in Supreme Court History: August 4, 1961
8/4/1961: President Barack Obama’s birthday. He would appoint two Justices to the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. President Obama’s appointees to the Supreme Court ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason …
Brickbat: Whose Side Are You On?
Douglas County, Nevada, Public Library Director Amy Dodson insists that a proposed library diversity statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement was not an anti-police statement. “It simply …
Extramural Speech at Auburn
Auburn University is currently struggling to stick to its principles on free expression. Hopefully they will get it right in the end, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Jesse Goldberg …