COVID-Era Abortion Bans Blocked in Three States—For Now
As more states move to temporarily ban surgical abortions using COVID-19 as an excuse, federal judges have begun to block them. In three separate rulings yesterday, federal judges told state …
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How the Government Bungled the Coronavirus Response
Believe it or not, we’re still in the month of March. On March 1, New York City recorded its first positive case for the novel coronavirus. On March 2, Mayor …
How Techies Ignored the Bureaucrats and Helped the COVID-19 Response
Thank God for the tech scene. When our established institutions fail in the face of existential threats, at least we have the quick thinking and resourcefulness of America’s computer jockeys …
Take the #100Cases challenge, Receive An Autographed Bookplate
Last week our publisher provided free access to the 11-hour video library from An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know. The reaction so far has …
Today in Supreme Court History: March 31, 1962
3/31/1962: Justice Charles Whittaker resigns. Justice Charles Whittaker ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, …
Texas Federal Court Blocks Restrictions on “Non-Essential” Abortion Procedures, Texas Asks Fifth Circuit to Reverse
Josh Blackman links to the briefs; here is the heart of Judge Lee Yeakel’s decision blocking the restrictions: [T]he court finds that Plaintiffs have established a substantial likelihood of success …
Location, location, location—and the virus
David Kris, Paul Rosenzweig, and I dive deep on the big tech issue of the COVID-19 contagion: Whether (but mostly how) to use mobile phone location services to fight the …
FDA Approves Emergency Use of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine to Treat COVID-19
Anecdotal evidence has suggested that the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine may be effective therapies for the coronavirus infections that are the cause of COVID-19. (Other data have questioned their …
Early and Broad Testing Helps Explain Why COVID-19 Looks Less Lethal in Germany
One relative bright spot in the COVID-19 pandemic has been Germany, where the number of deaths as a share of confirmed cases—the crude case fatality rate, or CFR—is currently about …
Why Are the Mainstream Media Ignoring Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Accusation Against Joe Biden?
On September 14, 2018, The New York Times reported the existence of an unverified sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The story cited three people who had read a …