Reason 3/12/1889: Justice John Campbell dies. 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, policy, …
More than 250 foreign students have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a sting operation against “pay-to-stay visa mills”—fake universities that handle transcripts and paperwork so that …
San Francisco officials have agreed to pay $369,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a journalist whose home and office were illegally searched by police. Cops were trying the find …
As the saying goes, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” I would add, “and anti-price gouging legislation in times of crisis.” Yet price increases in the face of sudden …
Do any of you know whether any courts are trying to do this because of coronavirus, or have been trying to do it more broadly? I would think it should …
President Donald Trump announced a 30-day ban on travel from continental Europe Wednesday as part of the U.S. government’s coronavirus pandemic response. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said that …
The World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak is now a pandemic. The global health agency defines pandemic as the worldwide spread of a new disease. The spread of …
There are few things more intimate than a personalized license plate. Yet California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) rejects tens of thousands of applications for individualized plate slogans each year …
Worrying that “countries have done too little, too late to contain the [COVID-19] epidemic,” an editorial in The Lancet suggests that “China’s vigorous public health measures,” which have included quarantines and travel …
A lackluster compromise bill to reauthorize and reform federal surveillance powers has been released, and privacy rights activists on both the left and the right are speaking out against it. …