Reason Google and Apple have released specifications for how to use a mobile phone to track coronavirus infections. That’s good news. As the country moves toward at least partial resumption of normal life, …
In the halcyon days of yore—you know, 10 weeks ago—budget hawks were fretting about the return of trillion-dollar deficits, with the Congressional Budget Office’s latest 10-year projection showing that the …
One of the most pervasive and exhausting features of the Donald Trump era is the way in which the president makes everything all about him. With that in mind, it’s …
The COVID-19 outbreak might be a disaster for most of the globe, but it’s proving to be a windfall for California’s NIMBYs who are being provided with new legal tools …
As the weeks of quarantine and social distancing drag on, many justifiably wonder when life can start getting back to normal. It’s not just cabin fever: Shutdowns mean real economic …
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A Claiborne County, Tennessee, sheriff’s deputy who fired his gun into traffic on Interstate 75 for no apparent reason has been sentenced to 11 months and 29 days unsupervised probation …
Judge Jim Gray, the 2012 Libertarian Party (L.P.) vice presidential nominee and the first sitting jurist to come out against the drug war way back in 1992, announced to his …
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has issued an updated stay-at-home order—arguably the most constraining in the nation. “As governor, I have to use every lever at my disposal to protect people,” the …
Once-a-century pandemics may place the most acute stress on the infected and those who care for them, but every sector of government and civil society come under strain too. So …