Reason The Federal Reserve announced Sunday afternoon that it will shift its target interest rate to the zero to 0.25 range, as well as launching a new shades-of-2008 phase of “quantitative …
Infectious diseases, specifically pneumonia, influenza, and tuberculosis, amounting to a death rate of about 400 per 100,000—with today’s population, that would be about 1.3 million deaths a year. (The number …
3/15/1933: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s birthday. ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, technology, culture, …
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced plans for what he called “the Great Society,” a sweeping set of programs that would represent the most ambitious and far-reaching expansion of the …
Skype, Zoom, FaceTime, something else? Just talking, or making sure you have a glass of wine in hand, or perhaps talking over a meal? Anything, whether hardware, software, or otherwise, …
(Post coauthored with Caprice Roberts.) The COVID-19 pandemic will lead to a great deal of litigation concerning contractual nonperformance, as well as many hypos on any 1L contract exams that may …
The site is DiReSom.net (no apparent connection with the rare word diresome): The health emergency caused by the contagious virus Covid-19 is having many consequences also on religious rules – more …
“Healthy regimes strike a balance between prohibition and permission,” claims conservative columnist Ross Douthat in the latest Fifth Column podcast. Libertarians, God love us, tend to have a different point …
Earlier this month, a group of organic farmers and advocates sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over the agency’s certification of some hydroponic produce as “organic.” The suit seeks …
3/14/1932: Justice Owen Roberts takes oath. ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, technology, …