Senators Push Sneaky Anti-Privacy Bill
A cabal of unsavory U.S. senators have introduced a long-anticipated measure that would pressure tech companies to weaken protections for communications privacy in the guise of a measure aimed at …
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Parents Don’t Need Advice on How To Talk To Their Kids About Coronavirus
How should you talk to your kids about the coronavirus? CNN recommends this: “Resist the urge to bombard them with every possible headline or piece of information about the outbreak.” …
CPAC Attendees Mocked Coronavirus Fears. Now Some Are Self-Quarantining.
Coronavirus comes to CPAC. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—held just outside Washington, D.C., two weekends ago—attendees mocked media and Democrats for their reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak. Conferencegoers …
An Algorithm for Predicting Recidivism Isn’t a Product for Products Liability Purposes
From Friday’s Third Circuit opinion by Judge Cheryl Krause, joined by Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith and Judge Thomas Hardiman, in Rodgers v. Christie: June Rodgers’s son was tragically murdered, …
Today in Supreme Court History: March 9, 1937
3/9/1937: President Roosevelt announces Court-packing plan. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD8jbD9l8p0?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, …
Congress Quietly Repeals More of Obamacare
At the end of 2019, Congress repealed three significant tax components of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. Each of them had been included in the initial legislation to raise …
Brickbat: Blow This
Illinois state Sen. Laura Fine, a Democrat, has introduced a bill that would ban the sale and operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in the state. Those who violate the law …
Even in California, Nearly All Patients With Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Used Black-Market THC Products
A new study of vaping-related lung injuries in California reinforces the evidence implicating black-market cannabis products, even in states that have legalized the production and distribution of marijuana for recreational …
Would a Ban on Handshaking Be Constitutional?
Say the government outright forbids handshaking, on the theory that it needlessly risks spreading illness (illness that, whether for COVID-19 or for ordinary cold and flu, creates some risk of …
Today in Supreme Court History: March 8, 1841
3/8/1841: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s birthday. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil …