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Closing Schools to Protect Kids Made Them Sick

NOT LONG AGO, parents spent time and energy worrying about contagious diseases other than COVID-19: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); hand, foot, and mouth disease; strep throat; and even the boring old flu. But the default standards for “safety” haphazardly narrowed and heightened as COVID-19 burst onto the scene. Lockdowns, school closures, and other restrictions substantially limited people’s access to each other.

Andrew Yang Is Still Trying To Move Forward

For a politician who’s never won anything, Andrew Yang is pretty famous. Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign failed to earn any delegates to the Democratic National Convention after getting about 5 percent in the Iowa caucuses and 3 percent in the New Hampshire primary. He came in fourth in New York City’s 2021 ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor. Despite his political struggles, Yang is now launching a new political party, the Forward Party.

Against Champagne Socialists

Why Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and Elizabeth Warren should open their wallets before they open their mouths.

THE LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN

ALARMED BY UNILATERAL COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, STATES ARE IMPOSING NEW LIMITS ON EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. ERIC BOEHM

WE KEEP GOING BACK TO THE MATRIX

HOW A GENERATION WAS REDPILLED BY A NERD POWER FANTASY ABOUT DEFINING YOURSELF IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Everything is Infrastructure Now

How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning

DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'

DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.

History – Walking the Delicate Line Between Reporter and Activist

I spent the second half of the 1990s hanging out with people who operate unlicensed radio stations. That was partly because I was covering them as a reporter, and it was partly because I was active in a movement to legalize their illicit transmissions.

Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?

A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.

Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate

The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.

Cashed Out

What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?

Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.

After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.

Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt

The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.

How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?

President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.

Jane Coaston – Meet The New York Times' Libertarian Podcaster

Jane Coaston on the polarization of everything

Stealthily Wielding Caesar's Sword

Sohrab Ahmari’s case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.

LET'S PLAY HORSESHOE THEORY

FUTURE

LEAVING AFGHANISTAN

WORLD

SELF-CANCELLATION, DE-PLATFORMING, AND CENSORSHIP

A TAXONOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE

How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism

Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.

America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics

A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.

Post Apocalypse

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the U.S. Postal Service. But a pandemic on top of a political fiasco? That’s a first-class problem.

Why Is It So Hard To Sue A Bad Cop?

“Redress for a federal officer’s unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent.”

Autonomous Mexico

What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state

The Bipartisan Antitust Crusade Against Big Tech

Is Facebook a monopoly? Should Amazon be forced to do business with the new social media platform Parler? Is Apple harming its customers—and maybe democracy—by installing the Safari web browser on iPhones? Did Google bully people into using its search engine?

The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary

Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.

What Free Market Health Care Would Actually Look Like

Dr. Lee Gross’ direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.

Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke

A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.

Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits

The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.